Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Refugee Minister Theodor Oberlaender, 54, who was a political officer with the Wehrmacht's Nightingale Battalion of pro-German Ukrainian nationalists when they entered Lvov in 1941. Before an international commission in The Hague this month, Oberlaender denied a charge that he ordered the massacre of 2,400 Ukrainians, Poles and Jews at Lvov, declared that the Russians did it before he got there...
Full Houses. Knock at any door below these topmost levels, and a former Nazi is as likely as not to answer. One in every three present West German M.P.s was once a Nazi, one in every ten East German M.P.s. The Chief Justice of the Communist East German Supreme Court is an old-time Nazi, the head of the Communist East German Academy of State and Legal Sciences a former high-ranking SS officer. Indignantly correcting a critic a few years ago, Chancellor Adenauer said that "only 66%" of the Bonn Foreign Office's senior officials had been Nazi...
...Nannen themes, but the differences are usually imperceptible. This makes it hard to explain why Stern is first in the Illustrierte sweepstakes, a mystery one also-ran has solved with the invidious remark that "Nannen has the sort of hysterical temperament it takes to run an illustrated." Some German journalists argue that that is also what it takes to read...
...heroine of Alban Berg's Lulu. Left uncompleted at Composer Berg's death in 1935, Lulu has one of the most difficult scores (twelve-tone) and the most sordid libretto ever written. It is a kind of nightmarish perversion of fin de siècle German romanticism; its subject matter includes sadism, narcissism, incest, homosexuality, masochism and murder. Counting its Zurich premiere in 1937, it has been staged only six times. The Frankfurt Opera is now giving Lulu its seventh production, and probably its best...
Contradictory Feminine. Berg based his tortured opera on two plays (Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora) by erotic, tormented Frank Wedekind (1864-1918). In German Playwright Wedekind's mind-and in Berg's-Lulu is an amalgam of all the contradictory feminine instincts: she is innocent and worldly, timid and rapacious, sentimental and heartless. Before the garishly painted curtain rises on a circus ring, a ringmaster invites the audience to witness the spectacle of the human circus, then calls: "Bring in our snake." In comes an assistant carrying Lulu, dressed in long black stockings...