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...German, not only because Germany seems to produce philosophers and theologians as Australia produces tennis players, but because few countries in the world have been so shaken by the 20th century. Tillich's parents came from the two main strains of the solid, stolid German middle class: the stark, authoritarian Prussians on his father's side (he was a prominent Lutheran clergyman), the sentimental, gemütlich Rhinelanders on his mother's (she was a schoolteacher). Tillich has been acutely aware of the two temperamental traditions at war within him. "In the East [of Germany...
...tilted frame of nontonality, is carefully cast in a variety of classical musical forms: suite, passacaglia, sonata, fanatasie and fugue; scherzo, etc. The huge (113 instruments) orchestra sometimes bellows in brassy rages, sometimes shrieks in lines of shrill angularity, sometimes surprises with passages of softly breathing lyricism. The stark horror of the murder is conveyed in a howling, brassy crescendo in the orchestra that gives way abruptly to the tinselly tinkle of a café piano; Wozzeck's morbid fears are unforgettably etched in a single, slithering pianissimo in the strings; the cowardice that lurks beneath the captain...
...building is supported by four 82-ft.-long girders above the roof, leaving 10,000 sq. ft. of column-free space beneath a 30-ft. ceiling. Opening to the north is a curving façade of grey-tinted glass which has become the main museum entrance. In such stark simplicity, the touches of elegance-Roman travertine on the entrance stairs and terrace, green Venetian terrazzo floors-take on a rich but restrained resonance...
...little skeptical of them, but there is every reason why Khrushchev should agree. According to Eaton, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is preaching "insane fanaticism," West German rearmament is "begging for trouble," recognition of Red China is "only common sense," and the U.S. position on Hungary is "stark hypocrisy." Says Eaton: "A truculent trinity of politicians, generals and journalists are relentlessly driving us to war . . . The only people in the U.S. who believe that Communism is a menace are the boys on the payroll...
Titanic's voyage to disaster, with all the heroism and hysteria reported in Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller. Done in stark, documentary style, with skillful collaboration from Scriptwriter Eric Ambler and Actor Kenneth More...