Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Humphrey expects an automatic advantage with the 1,500,000 Protestants, especially the 850,000 members of the Lutheran synods; on the other hand, he hopes to benefit from extensive campaigning by his fellow Minnesota Senator, Eugene McCarthy, a Roman Catholic. The Catholics of various national origins (Polish, Italian, German, Irish) are concentrated in the populous industrial areas, such as Milwaukee and La Crosse...
...play for the smaller catch, the Club's secretary, Peter J. Enderlin '61 is investigating an electronic method in which fish are attracted by electrical impulse. Discovered by a German scientist named Kreutzer, to whom Enderlin has written for advice, the system utilizes the finding that fish emit and are attracted by characteristic signals, similar to bird calls. The Club hopes to land tuna by this method...
...long since lived in another world, where human spirit reaches human spirit through some sixth sense that easily transcends differences created by war or nationality. Milly, his teen-age daughter, is so far out in soul land that daddy scarcely knows her. Mamma quickly falls for an impoverished German newspaperman who fought with Rommel and spent two years as a prisoner of war in Colorado. Milly is even more gone on a young German groom. The cast is filled out by a black-marketeering PX manager, a handsome, weak-spined staff lieutenant, and a young U.S. civilian who runs...
Author Boyle gets all these people down with a luminous directness that few writers can match. Her brief views of German life and her cameralike shots of war's destruction will make veterans realize what they only half saw when they were there. But with her poet's range and passion, she overshoots, as she usually has, the human mark. Her Germans are more credible than her own countrymen. The colonel is harshly drawn in a reasonably fair picture, but Milly and Catherine both lack reality. And who can believe that the kind of people described in this...
Five Finger Exercise. British Playwright Peter Shaffer lays out the battle lines of a marital war between a man of rough sensibility (Roland Culver) and his culture-fey wife (Jessica Tandy), with their son and a German tutor caught in no man's land...