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Diary entry for 1914-04-12
... mimed clownish acts to the peasants pleno titulo. One could imagine oneself transported back to the medieval times, so strikingly did the picture resemble that which one so often encounters in illustrations from the Middle Ages. We learned that the ...
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Diary entry for 1915-05-19
... the nationality principle on their part. It is thus evident that the older politics of nations, which did not know or follow the nationality principle which came into being in the middle of the nineteenth century, formed the basis of a much more ...
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Diary entry for 1915-07-09
... in the middle and let them shine merely like cabbage heads; soon they pervade the atmosphere in thin layers, their goal as yet unknown, undecided. The sun struggles openly to assert its authority; but it is at first still questionable whether it will ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-03
... him than at his son. One thing, however, is certain: no amount of practical experience can promote a bad work to the level of a good one. In the middle of wartime, Floriz has achieved for himself the luxury of a fatherhood. In view of the grave ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-24
... rather than making use of it! In olden times, in the Middle Ages, perhaps five or ten robber barons might have gone into a valley – today such robber barons go into a single side-street, numbering more than a hundred! Poverty usually makes those afflicted ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-12
... , in the middle of the war, and preaches that it is better to be beaten and destroyed so long as peace can only be achieved! Undoubtedly, if Germany accepts England's conditions, then peace will automatically ensue. But to understand human kindness in ...
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Diary entry for 1918-12-18
... demonstration of middle-school pupils, many youths are handled roughly by guardsmen! Plundering of Jewish property in Bohemia! Der Abend: Wilson apparently wants to speak directly with Germany. Ebert in an interview with the socialists of the Entente: he reminds ...
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Diary entry for 1919-03-16
... masses at large" (thus acting by example?). – "The middle-school reforms move in a practical direction, insofar as they will distance themselves from the past" "… we have fallen behind our neighbor because we were too trusting, too legally concerned about ...
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Diary entry for 1919-04-12
... Kaiser Wilhelm II The first citizens' councils in Korneuburg. The separation of the provinces from Vienna. The lifting of compulsory religious practice. Arbeiter-Zeitung: the awakening of middle school teachers (to organization and improved salaries ...
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Diary entry for 1925-08-29
... of the middle period and the purification of the end period could be seen in his portrayal. Unfortunately, Keller leaves the reader unclear about the disposition and, as a result, a contradiction gapes between the atrocities and this purification ...