... Marcel - (1887-1973); French existential Christian thinker; found in the Catholic church and answer to what he called the postwar "broken world"; Catholicism provided the hope, humanity, honesty, and piety for which he hungered 8. Jacques Maritain - (1882-1973); countryman; w/ Marcel, denounced anti-Semitism and supported closer ties with non-Catholics 9. Marie Curie - (1867-1934): polish physicist; w/ her ... poem, The Waste Land, he depicted a world of growing desolation, although after his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism, he came to hope cautiously for humanity's salvation 16. Franz Ka...

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... most innovative and influential composers of the 20th century. He is credited with the invention of serialism, or 12-tone music, method of composing with twelve notes related only to one another. It is a form of atonality, or lack of reference to a key or tonal center. In it, he broke ... to join the resistance. By the end of the war six million Jews had been systematically murdered. After the war Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes at Nuremburg, and West Germany later adopted the Federal Compensation Law, under which billions of dollars were paid to those who survived Nazi ... comm...

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