Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumph buried the socialist dogma of the 59-year-old Labor Party as an effective political force. Under Konrad Adenauer, Man of the Year in 1953, the resurgent economic strength of free Germany posed such intolerable comparisons that Communism tripped from threat to entreaty in its attempt to reduce German influence. France's Charles de Gaulle, Man of the Year in 1958, set himself to the task of restoring French pride, tried to bind up the debilitating wounds of Algeria, chipped away at NATO's supranational foundations; but the problems raised by De Gaulle's France were at least...
...Washington he also found time to research a new edition of his monumental Critical Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation, 1481-1935, which he aims to update through...
...only part of his year's work. He helped three friends write books on subjects as diverse as phenomenology, Socrates and sea power. He tackled five major translations, including a 600-page history of German literature and two German plays (he has four more in the works). And he began organizing an advanced institute for U.S. secondary-school German teachers, which Stanford will conduct in West Germany this summer with Morgan's teaching help...