Word: wilhelm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perfect Love? A German art historian named Wilhelm Fränger is the latest to have a try at unraveling the tangle of Bosch's imagery. In a book recently published, The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch (University of Chicago Press; $10), he sets forth an original conclusion: Bosch was not an orthodox Christian with a morbid interest in sins of the flesh, but a heretic, whose odd images are "cryptograms" and "hieroglyphs" understandable only to other initiates of his cult...
...Isolated. Such situations as Panmunjom could hardly have been imagined, either by cadets or by their most experienced instructors, when Clark graduated from the Point. The nation then was fighting Wilhelm II's Germans, who were supposed to be barbarians but who at least fought a traditional kind...
...Bosses. Boss of the whole show is Security Minister Wilhelm Zaisser, whose profession is revolution. Communist Zaisser led the Rhineland Red uprisings of 1923, later turned up in Spain as "General Gomez," commander of the 13th International Brigade. Heinz Hoffman, Inspector General of the Vopo, is a graduate of the Red army's war college...
...boss, organizer, judge, theoretician, tactician and strategist. For questioning some of Schumacher's violent stands, three of the strongest and, to the West, most friendly Socialists in Germany have been consigned to Schumacher's limbo. They are called "the three mayors"-Ernst Reuter of West Berlin, Wilhelm Kaisen of Bremen and Max Brauer of Hamburg, a onetime U.S. citizen...
...Named for Vienna Actor August Wilhelm Iffland (1759-1814), who, smitten with a younger actor's performance, presented him with the ring, instructed him to name his own successor in the next generation. Although Iffland wanted his token of stage greatness passed on forever, Basserman, who got the ring in 1908, sadly decided that it was cursed after three actors, to whom he successively planned to give it, all died, shortly thereafter. In 1946 he gave the heirloom to Vienna's Municipal Museum...