Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Double Standard. In Frankfurt, West Germany, Movie Starlet Sabine Sinjen, 17, greeted thousands of fans at the premiere of her new comic criminal film, No Angel Is So Pure, then had to go home before the actual showing because it is a film that German law forbids juveniles to attend...
...Like a German Malraux, but endowed with less literary talent and less luck, he touched all wars, all revolutions, all causes; born a Roman Catholic in 1897, he was by turns a boy soldier in the Kaiser's army, a student Freikorpsmann, i.e., pre-stormtrooper, a follower of the doomed German left, an anti-Hitler refugee in Paris, a political commissar with the Red forces in Spain, a refugee again in Mexico. Now this richly wounded hero of the class war, living in Mexico and blacklisted by both left and right, has returned to haunt an affluent generation that...
...depends on an understanding of the forces of which he made himself a servant. This understanding is often missing, or at best offers the cold comfort of wisdom after the event. As his first political experience-when he was a boy of five in his home town in the German Saarland-Regler recalls watching a policeman drag the local tailor by the ear up the town hall steps to face judgment for some obscure misdeed. From that moment on, compassion for any victim whose ears were twisted by authority animated Gustav Regler-but also led him to join political forces...
...visiting string orchestra-is described with more good faith than taste; her death seems to have liberated Regler from bitterness and the wish to judge. As a gesture against political bullies back home, Marie Louise once carried a bamboo blowpipe to puff pepper into the eyes of German police; pity had made her, too, willing to blind someone. Symbolically, Regler buried the pepper gun with her in her coffin...
Rosemary (German). The film version of the 1957 news story that set nearly every Homburg from Hamburg to Mannheim atrembling. One of the most sought-after prostitutes in West Germany, Rosemary was mysteriously strangled with one of her own stockings, and the case implicated some VIPs...