Word: albrecht
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...main purpose of all the mergers is to meet American competition. Says Dr. Albrecht Düren, general manager of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce: "Of the 30 biggest companies of the Western world in terms of sales, only four are from EEC countries, but 23 are from the U.S." He added, "Nothing must prevent us from putting Europe in a position to compete with the Americans...
...strong sunlight that bathes Italy, the Renaissance masters reveled in huge walls of spectrum-splattered fresco. In darker Northern Europe, the Renaissance first came in the more compact fashion of the graphic arts, in which line dominates color. And no one in the Renaissance drew a finer line than Albrecht Dürer (see color...
Dinners & Bazaars. The Rev. E. W. Albrecht, pastor of the South Miami Lutheran Church, scorns the practice of "roping people for fund-raising dinners in competition with restaurants." But the Very Rev. Nicholas Maestrini, Superior of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, each year raises $65,000 by a $100-a-plate dinner at Cobo Hall in Detroit. The sociable, old-fashioned church supper remains a respected but inefficient way of raising funds...
BROOKLYN MUSEUM-Eastern Parkway. Annually the museum puts on view as a special holiday treat a major painting never shown before in the U.S. This year's choice is one of the great treasures of the Staatliche Museen in West Berlin: Albrecht Altdorfer's The Adoration of the Shepherds. Painted between 1518 and 1520, it is one of the finest specimens of the brilliant interplay of night and light at which this late-Renaissance German excelled. Through...
...roly-poly ruler of Renaissance Bavaria, diamonds were a duke's best friend. Albrecht V nearly emptied the privy purse in 1565 to buy the 27 jewel-studded pieces-primarily cups and goblets-that formed the original Schatzkammer (treasure chamber) of the Wittelsbach family, which ruled Bavaria from 1180 to 1918. But to Albrecht, competing for glory with monarchs from Madrid to Moscow, it was worth every pfennig. Over the centuries, the treasure grew in splendor and size; its 1,224 pieces rank it with the four largest royal treasure chambers that survived the decline of Europe...