Word: dusseldorf
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...revered as a saint of modern Judaism, and as one of the last towering figures of the German Jewish renaissance that produced such men as Freud, Einstein, Kafka and Martin Buber. Born in Prussia, he studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, and as a rabbi in Silesia, Dusseldorf and Berlin emerged as one of Germany's great articulators of Reform Judaism. When Protestant Theologian Adolf von Harnack declared Judaism to be a spiritually inferior faith in his The Essence of Christianity, Baeck replied with The Essence of Judaism. Baeck defended Judaism as a classical religion, and argued that...
...last three Olympics Czech, Italian, and German crews have won the four-oars with cox event. In 1964, the odds-on favorites are the Russians. A four from Dusseldorf rowed them into the water in Rome in 1960, and the exhausted USSR four fell back to fourth place after running second most...
...sseldorf doctors are confident that infectious diseases can be reduced by getting rid of the common towel. But the hot-air dryer, they say, is far from an effective replacement; it spreads germs faster by blowing them into the air. The Dusseldorf doctors prefer either the long roll, in which each part of the towel is used only once, or individual paper towels. Either way, they urge: "One person, one towel...
...Bonn wineshop now sells Hennessy cognac at $3.75 a bottle while the best German Weinbrand at the same price gathers dust.* From tiny Fiats to elegant Ferraris, some 400,000 imported cars have been sold in West Germany. In a posh Dusseldorf shoe salon last week, a matron, eyeing the latest square-toed model, snapped: "Is It Italian?" Replied the salesgirl: "Madam, we sell only Italian shoes." German sausage and French pate are pouring into Belgium at twice the pre-1958 rate. One of Brussels' largest stores laid on a Common Market exhibi tion earlier this year called "Europe...
...opening of the Dusseldorf show, Thompson himself scarcely glanced at the treasures that he was seeing together for the last time. In fact he seemed delighted to get rid of them. Some observers speculated that this might be his revenge on his home town. Thompson himself said: "I want to enjoy once more the pleasure of bare walls waiting for new pictures...