Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve cars were carrying home the Long Island commuters who had stayed on after dinner to work late or to spend an evening in the city. Martin Steeil, 31, an automobile insurance underwriter, a veteran of the North African and German campaigns, had been bowling with the men from his -office. Steeil's wife and two-year-old son were waiting for him in Rockville Centre. Raymond Miller, 49, vice president of an insurance company, had been cleaning up his business before the weekend. He had just missed the 9:03 and had phoned his wife in Merrick...
...enter a discussion of the master race theory, and wind up with well-documented proof that no race is superior. U.S. High Commissioner McCloy was impressed. "I think [the Ulm Volkshochschule']" he said, "will reveal why many of us in Germany have faith in the future of the German people...
...technical help and money were coming to Educator Scholl from all over Europe. She had a big new project in mind: a daytime college for 150 students to study journalism, radio, city planning, etc. "Our aim," she explained, "is to send experts into society with a democratically oriented background. German specialists in the past have been too buried in their work to care who or what they were doing it for." The experimental college would be called "The Brother and Sister Scholl University...
...Bonn, the Social Democrat Bundestag members read a resolution calling the Neumünster verdict "a new, heavy blow and disgrace to the German people." In Kiel, the trade unions stopped work for 90 minutes in protest. The Christian Democrat press service warned: "The Weimar Republic collapsed because of [similar] tolerance toward its known enemies." U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy had a stinging comment: "I doubt, that [Hedler] can or will ever be acquitted morally by public opinion...
Last week Munich saw the first comprehensive show of new German art since the war. Held in Hitler's onetime headquarters, the massive FÜhrerbauhaus, it contained not a single blond Balder, buxom BrÜnnhilde or veiled Valhalla of the sort Hitler had liked to see. There were few still lifes or portraits either, and surprisingly few bitter or tragic pictures such as George Grosz and Kathe Kollwitz had made between wars. Instead of all that, the best young German painters were doing abstractions, by the acre...