Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Canal & Tunnels. Last week, after a month-long site study (using some of Rommel's leftover contour maps and aerial photographs), nine West German scientists and engineers settled down to write detailed reports on a daring project to convert the Qattara into a mammoth new power project. First suggested by the British more than 30 years ago, the idea is to dig a ditch from the Mediterranean to within nine miles of the Depression. Thence a tunnel would be bored under the rocky escarpment that rises along the Depression's northern rim. Emerging from the tunnel, the water...
...theme with great power; in the second he develops it in an allegro of relationship between the hero (Eiji Okada), a Japanese architect, and the heroine (Emmanuelle Riva), a French actress. Later, in a passage of gloomy elegy that evokes the heroine's "amour impossible" with a German soldier during World War II, the film begins to lose a little of its immediacy and drive. And in the long, obscure, lugubriously beautiful finale the theme is lost in sententious variations...
...disgust at those who called themselves "German Christians" and toed the Nazi line, Bonhoeffer accepted a pastorate in England in 1933, but returned to Germany when his church called him to take charge of one of its near-illegal seminaries, which were frowned on by the Nazis but permitted to operate on a shoestring in private country houses. In 1937 the Nazis began to stop his work, but two years later Bonhoeffer somehow won permission to come to the U.S., where he had previously spent a year on a scholarship at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. His second stay...
Died. Max Theodor Felix von Laue, 80, German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize for his work on the nature of X rays; of injuries in an auto accident; in West Berlin. Though he did atomic research in the early days of World War II, Von Laue quit in 1943 in protest against the Nazi regime. In 1957 he was spokesman for 18 German physicists who opposed equipping West German forces with tactical nuclear weapons...
Five Branded Women (Dino De Laurentiis; Paramount). "I did not loave a German," the proud beauty (Silvana Mangano) sneers at a stern chief (Van Heflin) of the Yugoslav partisans. "I loaved a man!" But the partisans aren't having any of that. They have already mutilated the German sergeant (Steve Forrest) Silvana was committing treason with, and they are obviously determined to cut her up too. A grimy partisan approaches her with scissors drawn. Van twists her arms behind her back. Her bosom heaves. A horrible thought flashes across the spectator's mind. Then they...