Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since 1945, including more than $3 billion to Germany, was grimly grateful for Bonn's patched-together foreign-aid package. But for all its potential value in helping meet the insatiable needs of the new Afro Asian nations-which the U.S. cannot hope to meet alone-the German program would not reduce this year's U.S. international-payments deficit in the slightest; it was, a U.S. spokesman laconically noted, "a beginning...
...years (1723 to 1750) Johann Sebastian Bach himself directed the choir that has since become the chief custodian of his music. But in the last 3½ years, since scholarly Kurt Thomas took over as choirmaster, there have been persistent reports that the East German government has been trying to force the Thomaner to sing to a Communist tune. Last week Cantor Thomas fled to West Germany, taking with him probably the last hope for the preservation of the world's finest Bach choir...
Before Thomas took the job, the East German Communists appeared ready to give him complete artistic autonomy, but no contract was signed, and Thomas soon found himself subjected to a campaign of harassment. The choir's U.S. tour sched uled for the summer of 1957 was canceled over Thomas' violent protests. The Reds tried to pressure Thomas into performing fewer religious works, and objected to one of his own compositions because it contained the line, "Let us all praise God united." The Leipzig city assembly suggested that in the future the choir perform "songs...
...deal goes through there is a real danger that British production and employment will be sacrificed to Detroit and to West Germany." Lloyd's concern is just the opposite: if the government does not approve the Ford offer, the company might concentrate its expansion in its wholly owned German subsidiary, leaving the British...
...White Stone is a sequel to Coccioli's Heaven and Earth (TIME, July 28, 1952), in which Don Ardito grew in power as a preacher while losing his capacity to love his fellow humans. That novel ended with an act of expiation in which the priest persuaded a German officer in World War II to execute him for acts committed by others. The present novel begins by reducing that sacrifice to irony. Perhaps as a symbolic agent for the humbling of Don Ardito's spiritual pride, the German officer stages a mock execution of the priest, complete with...