Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impressive reasons argue for staying. East German doctors can actually earn more than most of their West German colleagues and can usually command a house and car. And West Germany is officially opposed to the exodus, partly because West Germany has a surplus of doctors, partly because the government believes that if the spark of liberty is to be kept alive in East Germany, some intellectual leaders must remain. Minister for All-German Affairs Ernst Lemmer says carefully: "We wish these represent atives of the German intelligentsia would stick it out and lend their fellow citizens a moral and spiritual...
...genius for antagonizing intellectuals - even those it is most anxious to placate. It denies doctors the right to prescribe any drugs not made in Iron Curtain countries. It puts pressure on them to rush workers back to their jobs, to put productivity above professional judgment. A West German physician sympathizes: "Any reputable doctor recognizes his ethical duty to his patients. But he also has an ethical duty to his children. And suppose the authorities demand that he make confidential reports on the political attitudes of his patients and colleagues...
...East German bosses do just that. Dr. Hans Klamp was prepared to stay as head of an employee clinic in Gartz-until the Communist Regional Council ordered him to deliver weekly intelligence reports on his patients. In Briissow the security police wanted to "bug'' a private-consultation room so they could tape-record patients' complaints. The doctor decided that ethics and morality left him no choice. He fled...
...nine months ago, Eichmann has been confined in a heavily guarded cell at an undisclosed location. He wears Israeli army-style khaki trousers, shirt and pullover and when not consulting with his lawyers, keeps busy boning up on standard works dealing with the Nazi persecution of the Jews. His German-born lawyers, Robert Servatius and Dieter Wechtenbruch, meet with him for six hours a day in a windowless room bisected by a glass wall. Lawyers and client have to communicate via earphones and microphones. The lawyers show Eichmann documents and letters from his wife by pressing them against the glass...
...helped keep Dallapiccola going, but his name began to be heard after the 1940 premiere of his first opera, Night Flight, based on the book by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. During the war Dallapiccola went into hiding in the mountains to protect his Jewish wife from the German forces in Italy. Since the war, his reputation has steadily grown as he has added to his small body of work a number of impressive vocal compositions: Five Fragments from Sappho for Voice and Chamber Orchestra, Five Songs for Baritone, Two Anacreon Songs and Requiescat (set to words...