Word: joachimism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Felsenstein, opera is a highly seasoned slice of life; to Wallmann, it is musical pie-in-the-sky. East Berlin's Turandot, staged by Felsenstein Protégé Joachim Herz but supervised by the boss himself, stressed naturalistic stage effects, an infinite concern for dramatic detail, and acting of startling realism. The curtain rose on an iron grille stretched across the proscenium, representing the palace gate separating the chorus of rag-clad Chinese from the palace courtyard, where one of Turandot's unsuccessful suitors was about to be executed. The mob faced the audience in silence...
...Great Depression crept slowly westward during the fall of 1930, but great men were speaking of an upturn, and optimism still gripped the public mind. Black Thursday was a year old, Europe seemed to be heading for hell, and Carl Joachim Friedrich, then an assistant professor of Government, stated "There is no probability at all of the establishment of a dictatorship in Germany...
...federal republic's Defense Minister last year, stocky, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been preparing plans for a home army "under German not NATO control, to try and protect the Fatherland." Last week Strauss named a member of an old Prussian military family, Major General Hans-Joachim von Horn, 61, to organize and command such a force...
...comfort to the West. The neutralism of Karl Barth, with its plague-on-both-your-houses detachment from the struggle between Communism and the free world, dominates such influential German clergymen as Pastor Niemoller, such prominent theologians as Bonn University's Professors Helmut Gollwitzer and Hans-Joachim Iwand. Last week Hamburg University students jampacked their biggest lecture hall to listen to a very different kind of theologian...
...with the Wehrmacht at the English Channel, and beleaguered Britain waiting seemingly helpless and hopeless on the other side, Germany's Minister to Portugal sent an encouraging telegram to his boss in Berlin, Foreign Minister and ex-champagne salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Duke of Windsor, Britain's ex-King Edward VIII, it said, was ready and eager to return home with his American wife to reclaim the throne of Britain for both of them. To bring this about, the message went on, there were two possibilities: either England would urge him to come back, which Windsor considered...