Word: kultur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a Negro was lynched in Maryland's Eastern Shore town of Salisbury, the late Baltimore Sage H. L. Mencken, exploding in Baltimore's Evening Sun, hurled a carboy of acid across Chesapeake Bay at the lynchers and their ilk. Sample corrosives: "The Eastern Shore Kultur ... an Alsatia of morons . . . ignorant and ignoble minds." Maryland's state senate recently held a roll call on a resolution expressing "the sorrow of the General Assembly of Maryland over the passing of Henry Louis Mencken." It passed, not unanimously as such resolutions usually do, but by a vote...
...Kultur" Must Guide America...
...good that you American students come here to learn about our great Kultur and so about your own mistakes. Perhaps you can help mature the naive minds of your countrymen. Since you are the strong today, it is very important that the wisdom of Europe, of Germany restrain you from your naive and impulsive policies...
When the war ended, the Russians, bent on a big Kultur offensive, took over what was left of the grand old State Opera company. They paid its casts handsomely and footed the bills for the best in costumes and scenery. Since performers and listeners had no trouble crossing sectors, the State Opera quickly restored its name as Berlin's first company. Now the Russians are even rebuilding the Unter den Linden theater, and providing it with a stage fully equipped for all the massive magnificence that Germans love...
...novel: a befuddled aristocrat; a Prussian millionaire with a vast amount of useless erudition; a general who insists that the Collateral Campaign must recognize the military glories of the Empire ; and the female inspiration behind the whole campaign, a statuesque middle-class beauty given to high-minded speeches about Kultur. As might be expected the meetings of the committee end merely with decisions to set up still more committees...