Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...rumpled trenchcoat, cigarette dangling, he became a familiar figure along the Boulevard St. Germain, and on his arm there always seemed to be a pretty woman. But life still remained a procession of causes. He resigned from UNESCO when Franco's Spain joined the U.N.; he campaigned for German workers killed by Communist police in East Berlin. Alone in his hotel room, standing at a chest-high desk, he wrote. In 1951 his fiercely anti-Marxist The Rebel burst upon Paris...
...unfortunate tradition of innumerable German graphics at the Busch-Reisinger has been broken by its present exhibit of recent acquisitions. The new works of art, primarily from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, include religious sculpture and a fine fifteenth century Dutch painting--a pleasant exception to the Museum's unduly strict devotion to German...
...badly weakened heart, he conducted his last concert with the New York Philharmonic against his doctor's orders, and developed the streptococcus infection that killed him in 1911 at the age of 50. Strangely, his last whispered reference was to Mozart, a composer poles apart from the German romantic tradition that died with...
Died. Dr. Leo Loeb, 90, German-born, Swiss-educated pathologist, whose pioneer researches (into the importance of heredity and sex hormones) led Harvard's great Physiologist Walter B. Cannon to remark: "It is impossible to view cancer research from any angle without finding it enriched by Dr. Loeb"; in St. Louis...
...There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books." wrote Georg Lichtenberg, an 18th century German aphorist. "Printed by people who don't understand them, sold by people who don't understand them, bound, criticized, and read by people who don't understand them, and now even written by people who don't understand them." A look at the current bestseller list (see p. 84) gives Lichtenberg the air of a prophet. The fiction crop is one of the poorest in years. Items...