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. . . GEOGRAPHY see: "NATURE" for related links see: "PLACES" for related links The art of Biography Is different from Geography. Geography is about maps, But Biography is about chaps. --Edmund Clerihew Bentley (18751956) English novelist and humorist. _Biography for Beginners_ [1905] "There goes the neighborhood." --Caption for old _New Yorker_ cartoon. Native American watching the first white men disembark from ships. ----- antipodes (noun) [an-'tip-κ-deez] (1) A place on the opposite side of the Earth; (2) the antithetical location or position, the exact opposite of something.  . . see: "LANGUAGE" for related links Spoken German often strikes a foreigner as angry. It's full of harsh gutturals, and the intonations may sound imperious and domineering. When later I spent time in Germany, I would sometimes ask what two people were arguing about, only to be told they weren't arguing at all, they were just having a normal conversation. --Kenneth Good _Into The Heart_, ch. 4 [1991] . . see: "PEOPLE" for related links Me? Not like Germans? Why should I not like Germans? Just because they're arrogant and have fat necks and do anything they're told so long as it's cruel, and killed millions of Jews in concentration camps and made soap out of their skins? Is that any reason to hate their [...] guts? --Mel Brooks (b. 1926) American actor, writer, and director. Interview in _Playboy_ [February 1975]. Once all the Germans were warlike and mean, But that couldn't happen again. We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen, And they've hardly bothered us since then. --Tom Lehrer (b. 1928) American songwriter and satirist. "The MLF Lullaby" [1965] ;void(0)) GERMANY . . see: "NAZI GERMANY" see: "PLACES" for other related links The defeat of Nazism has removed one of the obstacles to the democratization of Germany; but it has not created a democratic Germany," wrote Dulles. "Nor is there much basis for the belief that democracy will develop in Germany under present conditions of defeat, hunger, idleness and despair." --a report from the April 1947 issue of the magazine _Foreign Affairs_, in which future CIA chief Allen W. Dulles complained that prospects for democratic reforms in postwar Germany looked bleak. A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. --Hans Frank (19001946) German politician and lawyer who served as govenor-general of Poland during WWII. "France et. al. v. Goering et. al.", (Intl Mil. Trib. 1946). - All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.' --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. Address at City Hall, West Berlin [26 June 1963]. & note: What [Kenedy's speech writers] did not know, but could easily have found out, was that such citizens never refer to themselves as 'Berliners.' They reserve that term for a favorite confection, often munched at breakfast. So while they understood and appreciated the sentiments behind the President's impassioned declaration, the residents tittered among themselves when he exclaimed, literally, 'I am a jelly-filled donut.' --_New York Times_ [30 April 1988] - As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: "This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality." Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. "Tear Down This Wall" speech, West Berlin [12 June 1987]. . . see: "PEOPLE" for related links A man with a sense of humor to match his musical talent, Gershwin once attended a Manhattan party when his good friend Oscar Levant teasingly said to him, "George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?" Even though everybody knew Levant was engaging in a bit of playful badinage, they waited eagerly to see how Gershwin would respond. They were not disappointed when he rejoined with a friendly insult of his own: "Oscar, why don't you play us a medley of your hit? --unknown author end page | GAMBLING - GARDENS | GARFIELD - GENERATION GAP | GENEROSITY - GENTLEMEN | GEOGRAPHY - GERSHWIN | GHOSTS - GLASSES | GLOBALIZATION - GOALS | GOD | GOLF | GOOD DEEDS - GOODBYES | GOODNESS - GOVERNMENT | GRACE - GRASS | GRATITUDE | GRAVEYARDS - GREED | GREETINGS - GROWING | GROWING OLDER - PAGE 1 (A-L) | GROWING OLDER - PAGE 2 (M-Z) | GROWING UP - GULLIBLE | GUN CONTROL & GUNS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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