Word: wie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patience with historians who insist that "objective reality" exist, that it alone determines human action, and that if only we can count all railroad ties and piglets in a country we shall know what it is. "Numerology" is what he calls the most zealous, usually American, attempts to demonstrate wie es eigentlich gewesen war. Not surprisingly there are those who consider his views of the past fruitless or even anarchic...
...with historians who insist that "objective reality" exists, that it alone determines human action, and that if only we can count all the railroad ties and piglets in a country we shall know what it is. "Numerology" is what he calls the most zealous, usually American, attempts to demonstrate wie es eigentlich gewesen war. Not surprisingly there are those who consider his view of the past fruitless or even anarchic...
Though they have traditionally been noted for their frugality and discipline, West Germans today are grandly living, as they like to put it, wie Gott in Frankreich - like God in France. Wages are rising almost twice as fast as productivity, imports are climbing twice as fast as exports, and the government has been spending much more than it has collected in taxes. The cost of such xtravagance is West Germany's gaudi est inflation in 15 years. With consumer prices up almost 4% from a year ago, the German Hausfrau has to pay $1.08 for a dozen eggs...
...concert will close with Psalm 84, "Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen," by Heinrich Schutz...
...written in 1941, but has rarely been performed (a literarily distinguished cast headed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir once gave it a formal reading under Albert Camus' direction in Paris). Its title, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue, comes out Wie man Wünsche beim Schwanz packt in German, which more or less means "How to Catch a Wish by the Tail." Described as a surrealistic carnival revue, Artist Picasso's play catches little else. Performed by twelve young actors, it is a disheveled stream of Freudian consciousness, generally pouring from...