Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...about rockets?" said a captured German V-2 scientist to a U.S. interrogator in 1945. "Ask your own Robert Goddard. We learned about rockets from him." Robert Goddard was a space prophet without honor in his own country. Back in 1926, an obscure professor of physics at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., he heralded the coming space age by sending an ungainly rocket aloft from a snow-covered field at his aunt's farm in Auburn. At the request of alarmed residents, the Auburn police asked him to get out of town. His neighbors in Worcester considered...
...West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was described by a recent visitor as "totally preoccupied" with the possibility that Stevenson might become Democratic Secretary of State and launch a "soft" policy on Berlin. Throbbing with suspicion, Adenauer fortnight ago sent his press chief, Felix von Eckhardt, to the U.S. to sound out Adlai's chances. (Eckhardt's conclusion, after seeing Kennedy, Stevenson, former New York Governor Averell Harriman, and "using my ears, not my mouth": nobody knows right...
Young Israel Synagogue in Cleveland, is that it threatens the philosophical underpinnings of liberal Judaism, which was founded largely on the ethical rationalism of 19th century German thought. Liberal Jews set small store by the Law; some Reform congregations have little to distinguish them from Unitarians. Existentialism, with its distrust of reason and its emphasis on the irrational and emotional nature of man's fear-filled, striving experience of life, points Jews as well as Christians back to the intangibles of the Old Testament, where religion has little to do with peace of mind or making the world...
...commandos, festooned with assorted demolition charges, fanned out across the bulky concrete submarine pens. A refitted American destroyer-the old four-stacker Buchanan-crammed with explosive until it was a vast time bomb, rammed the main gate of Normandie dock, only Atlantic dry dock capable of handling the great German battleship Tirpitz. Of the 611-man assault team, only 442 survived. But St. Nazaire was shattered by blasts that went off at unexpected intervals for the next 2½ days. Normandie dock could not be repaired for the next ten years. The commando raid, said Churchill later, was "a deed...
Jacques Offenbach's score for La Belle Helene has probably never been equalled by anybody except Offen-bach. It is "music so French," said James Agate, "that it needed a German Jew to write it:" irrepressible and irresistible music, subtly mischievous, knowing, deft, and inexhaustibly high-spirited. It alone is worth the price of admission to the Arts Center, which is very fortunate since it alone is nearly all that this venture has to recommend...