Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British ambassadors to complain at the leak. When that did not work, he grudgingly conceded that he would make no further move on the Spanish project without specific NATO approval-which now may prove hard to get. Even after a stormy 2½-hour session with the West German Parliament's defense committee, Strauss continued to insist that "the logic of our ideas and assessment of strategic necessities cannot be disputed," and West Germans asked in hurt tones how their allies could cherish such unworthy suspicions toward "the new Germany...
Julius Nyerere, 38, a small, mustached onetime schoolteacher who was one of 26 children, will soon be in charge of Britain's Tanganyika trust territory (German before World War I), an East African land as large as France and Germany combined. By common consent, he is the ablest of the rising new crop of African leaders...
WHILE Titian was preparing a career that spanned the high Renaissance in Italy, a severe German artist named Albrecht Dürer turned up in Venice. Dürer's self-appointed mission: to soak up the best efforts of the Italian Renaissance and teach its lessons north of the Alps. Returning to Nurenberg, Dürer brought about a flowering of German and Flemish art in the early 16th century that ranks with the great moments of art history. The northern Renaissance was cooler, more metaphysical and clear-lined than its sensuous, rainbow-hued Italian source...
...Mine. Few Americans realize the full splendor of Northern Renaissance because German and Flemish art has been far less widely dispersed than the Italian. Its major museum collections lie off the standard London-Paris-Rome tourist track. One of the best is at Munich, built up over centuries by the dukes and princes of Bavaria and now sheltered in the austerely classical Alte Pinakothek. The museum itself was completed by King Ludwig I in 1836. Allied bombs destroyed it in 1944, but the collection had been safely stored away in scattered castles and an Austrian salt mine. Rebuilt almost exactly...
...fact, such painters as Altdorfer and Dürer stand with Bach in music and Goethe in literature as German immortals. And Munich deserves a place on any art-loving tourist...