Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...defectors from East Germany turned up in Berlin with reports on the new doctrine of the East German army. Captain Guenther Malikowski, 32, a one time political officer with the First Motorized Rifle Division in Potsdam, said the theme of troop indoctrination is now a "justified war of liberation" against West Germany. East German troops are told they should have no compunction about killing fellow Germans if they are serving the "imperialist" cause...
...between the playwright and the adaptor followed immediately on the heels of their first encounter in 1941. Few people in America had heard of, let alone wanted to translate, Bertolt Brecht. Bentley, then an instructor at U.C.L.A., was introduced to him in Hollywood as a man who could translate German. Brecht read some of his tentative translations and then produced some original material. "Line by line, I would translate and he would tell me what was wrong with my translation," Bentley now recalls with a smile that insinuates the nature of the criticism. "It wasn't that bad," he adds...
...leave from Columbia, where he is Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, is a forty-four year old Englishman whose name is intertwined with that of Bertolt Brecht. Through his translations, and explanations of the complex Brechtian theories of epic drama, he has been chiefly responsible for the German playwright's recent surge of popularity. An anthologizer, translator, producer, and director, Bentley today looms as one of the most respected and acute commentators on the theatrical scene...
...emergence is the coolness with which he has been received in the Soviet Union. To the best of Bentley's knowledge, the only Soviet production of this outspoken socialist's work, an unsuccessful Threepenny Opcra, was put on in the early 1930's. Recently, the Berliner Ensemble (the East German group founded by Brecht and now headed by his wife), toured the U.S.S.R. encountering an audience and press that was polite but never enthusiastic...
Kennedy fixed the blame for the situation that had led to the Munich Agreement of 1938 on the same sort of complacency that he has criticized in the present campaign. The trouble lay, he wrote, not merely in "the failure to judge the dynamism of the German movement," not merely in "mis-judgement of the relative industrial outputs of England and Germany," but also in the "calm acceptance that the democratic way is the best...