Word: wilhelms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advocates of internationalism, democracy, a distinct separation between church and state and improved social conditions, the Socialists naturally aroused deep suspicions in the monarchical, clerical, nationalistic Germany of the 19th century. "For me, every Social Democrat is an enemy of the Realm and of the Fatherland," declared Kaiser Wilhelm II. "That party, which dares to attack the foundations of the state, which revolts against religion and does not even stop at the person of the Almighty Ruler, must be crushed...
BISMARCK barred them from political life, and Kaiser Wilhelm scourged them as an unpatriotic rabble. Konrad Adenauer, who presided over the rebirth of West Germany, dismissed them as unfit to govern, and for years millions of his countrymen agreed. Last week, in the wake of one of the closest elections in the 20-year history of the Federal Republic, the Social Democrats, long the outcasts of German politics, prepared to take power. Unless the coalition carefully pasted together with the Free Democrats suddenly comes unstuck, Willy Brandt will be sworn in as the Chancellor of West Germany...
Orlando Cepeda, the Baby Bull, hit a grand slam home run in the third inning to give the Braves enough runs to win. Phil Niekro won his 22nd game with help from another knuckleballer, Hoyt Wilhelm...
...also sought to prod Germans out of their complacency about the nation's Nazi past and materialistic present. Still, Grass downgrades his role as a social or political critic. "The idea that writers are the conscience of the nation is pure nonsense," he says. Others disagree. Professor Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz of Quebec's Laval University, who has written a literary critique of Grass, calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support of Kaiser Friedrich II's struggle to become Holy Roman...
...Died. Wilhelm Backhaus, 85, German patriarch of concert pianists and the century's foremost interpreter of Beethoven; of a heart attack; in Villach, Austria. When Backhaus was eight, the noted pianist-composer Arthur Nikisch wrote to him that "whoever plays the great Bach so well when so young will surely make his way later on." The assessment was overly modest. In a career spanning three generations, Backhaus won acclaim for his masterful interpretations of virtually all the great composers. But his deepest dedication was to Beethoven, whose sonatas he played with great clarity of style and breadth of emotion...