Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Club, where the new industrial upper crust can taste the delights of Lebensraum at the top. From its front courtyard, part of a neo-Renaissance palace built by the old nobility, to the comely blondes from Berlin who tend bar, the club exudes an easy opulence that suggests a Bavarian version of Rome and la dolce vita...
...means of air between the lines, tiny type blocks, and large page numbers. The space fraud does not matter, but the unfulfilled expectation of substance does. There is only one major character, and he is not very interesting, even to himself. His name is Adam Rosenzweig, a young Bavarian Jew whose crippled left foot requires him to wear a special boot (his Jewishness makes him an outcast and his lameness, melodramatically, makes him doubly so-Warren still does not trust his own skill). Exalted with a vision of freedom, Adam decides to migrate to the U.S. to fight with...
...President Heinrich Lübke has warned that he will not inaugurate the Chancellor if he tries to rule with a minority government. Moving in for what he hoped would be the kill, wily Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss took to TV to announce that his own 50-man Bavarian wing of the party-which fared respectably at the polls-had decided that der Alte should be succeeded by Erhard. Strauss's critics say that he hopes Erhard will serve briefly as transitional Chancellor, perform badly in foreign affairs, and thus clear the way for Strauss himself...
...program has it. Mr. Bentley's translation of a difficult text is a fair one, and a clean one, but he has seen fit to spruce up the play by adding several songs and an opening and closing chorus-line number more reminiscent of the English than of the Bavarian music hall...
...Gottlieb's two partners, if not ready for chairs at Harvard, also have backgrounds creditably academic. Hassilev, 28, a handsome, international polychrome, was born in Paris, the son of a Russian civil engineer, and was eventually educated at the University of Chicago. Yarbrough, 31, who looks like a Bavarian bobsledder and sings in a Dennis Day tenor, was educated at the Great Books college, St. John's in Annapolis. The two met in the folksinging circles of small New York nightclubs. Gottlieb, who had helped pay his graduate school expenses as one of San Francisco's Gateway...