Word: witz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germans, no matter what the rest of the world says, have a wonderful sense of humor-if only they were not so serious about it. This picture, adapted from the last novel published by the late Thomas Mann, is a classic instance of deutscher Witz: a good joke, badly told but brilliantly explained, heartily laughed at by the teller, laboriously retold from several other angles, and reduced, in conclusion, to its philosophic essence. In this case, unfortunately, the essence is a dull epigram. "Love the world," Mann's hero cries, "and the world will love you." The statement expresses...
Bowlers & Rozzers. Novelist Manko-witz evidently sets up these two old human ruins as symbols of man's condition on earth, with well-meaning officials as their natural enemies. The officials are the book's runts and spivs and riffraff-the ones who have fared best under the Welfare State. Old Cock pegs them down (to quote the most printable of his memorable vocabulary) as bowler-hatted, bean-eyed, lousy, bootlicking Picklewaters. The old man is quite a social thinker. After one brush with authority-represented by an arrogant doorman-he reflects: "If we have to take...
...with his booming laugh; senile Casanova, with sparks of old fire in his eyes; between them, Wolfgang, trotting along in a vacuum of bliss and ideas, a quiet little man, looking up at each in turn to catch the last outrageous remark and cap it with some Salzburger dreckiger Witz (dirty joke) that made them pound his slight back and bellow with...
Died. Rose Frances Witz Whitney Hull, 79, wife of Cordell Hull, longtime (1933-44) Secretary of State under F.D.R.; of pulmonary edema; at her childhood home in Staunton...
Even the students involved in the Foundation Program are divided as to its success. "The Ford student may lack the savoir faire of some of his classmates and his period of adjustment may be a few days longer," Charles Witz '55, commented, "but his progress is definite and in time he will outshine, if indeed he has not already done so, many of his classmates in thought and deed...