Word: wilhelms
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...Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher: "Only one man ever understood me." Then he paused and said: "And he didn't understand...
Rubinstein, whom his friend Thomas Mann called "that civilized man," is a product of the same Europe that Mann knew, a Europe that also nurtured such pianists as Benno Moiseiwitsch and Wilhelm Backhaus. Indeed, Rubinstein could have stepped out of a Mann novel. His enthusiasm for food, wines, cigars, paintings and fine editions is legendary, and his cultural interests extend far beyond his music. He reads omnivorously in eight languages, hobnobs more with writers than he does with musicians, occasionally regrets that he did not follow a youthful urge to become a novelist. His piano playing seems the consequence...
...that any sort of negotiations could only lead to dangerous concessions, Kennedy informed French Ambassador Herve Alphand that he was growing weary of the French attitude of offering objections without any help. Replying to an equally anxious note from Germany's Konrad Adenauer, Kennedy assured West German Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe in no uncertain terms that he does not intend to let West Berlin go down the drain, or to make any concessions at West Germany's expense. But he held out no false hopes of German reunification, which he feels is unrealistic so long as Russian troops...
...Adenauer is far from eager for them to begin. Adenauer is determined not to accept any settlement that might shatter Germany's hopes for eventual reunification. He hopes to visit President Kennedy in Washington as soon as his Cabinet crisis is resolved. Meanwhile, last week he sent Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe to Washington with orders to pass on some of the specifics of the German stand. Items: Bonn cannot extend de facto recognition to East Germany, although it is willing, under certain conditions, to talk to East Germany about arrangements for an all-German election. West Germany cannot accept...
Died. Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 73-benign. German-bred Harvard classicist whose monumental studies of Aristotle and the ideals of ancient Greek culture themselves became classics: of injuries suffered in a fall: in Boston...