Word: das
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defeat into Victory. In World War II, allied bombs just about demolished the Ullstein block along the Kochstrasse, but printing presses in a skyscraper near the Tempelhof airport were little damaged. They continued to pour forth Goebbels' Das Reich and the screaming Der Angriff until the end. The Red army carted off two of the plant's finest presses, but when the U.S. took over the sector, the remaining presses still made it the biggest printing plant in Europe. It rolled out the U.S. Army's Allgemeine Zeitung and later five other West Berlin dailies...
...devaluation was one more indication that Communist Marshal Tito, while still revering Das Kapital as a Bible, is not using it as his only economics textbook. The Tito regime has recently loosened the government's rigid control over the Yugoslav economy, putting many state-run enterprises on a profit & loss basis...
...took a stack of books along on their honeymoon, made her read Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Dostoevski. She took a U.C.L.A. correspondence course in economics and English literature, tackled War and Peace, The Magic Mountain ("I thought I'd never finish that damn book") and Das Kapital ("Ever since then," says a friend, "she has been spelling capital with...
...real jolt came with the Ring cycle. When Wotan appeared on another dimmed-down stage in Das Rheingold, the murmur went up: "He has no helmet!" Muttered one oldtimer: "The stage is so dark I can't even see if he has a beard." (He had.) Shock followed shock. Wieland stripped his stages bare, cut down on all warlike gear save for a few essential spears. Siegfried's funeral pyre was left to the imagination. In Götterdämmerung, nobody got to see Valhalla burn: there was only a red glow in the sky, no sign...
...students will read everything from Das Kapital to transcripts of the Hiss trial. They will interview local C.P. members and FBI men, write detailed term papers on local Communist-front activities and how they operate. Bouscaren's idea is not to turn his students into amateur counterspies, but to give them a firsthand look at "what we're fighting against." After all, says he, "we have compulsory courses in American institutions; I feel we should have one to tell about the threats to those institutions...