Word: essene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Wars I and II, is an intrinsically fascinating story. Unfortunately the drama is often dulled by German-born Author Norbert Muhlen's drab style. But he livens his chronicle with a series of personality sketches of the lonely, driven eccentrics who lorded it over the steelworks at Essen, and were lucky at cartels, unlucky at love...
...more irony than iron in his foundry, the Forge of Good Hope, and died at 39 of dropsy and despair. His son Alfred was later to find and filch the sought-for secret from British forgemasters while posing as a frivolous visiting baron, Herr Schropp. After he set the Essen smokestacks belching, Alfred devoted seven years to casting a cannon in steel instead of the traditional bronze; the weapon later pulverized the French in the six-month...
...they do not control," he snorts. "It smells of Hollywood. The human being becomes forgotten." His office now has projects for a new cultural center for Wolfsburg, Germany (home of the Volkswagen works), a museum in Denmark, a semicircular apartment house in Bremen and a new opera house for Essen. Says U.S. Architect Eero Saarinen, himself the son of a famed Finnish architect: "In the postwar decade, Aalto seemed headed away from the mainstream of architecture-until now. The development of the last few years has proved him right. Architecture, while maintaining its gain in technology, is turning to Aalto...
While the statesmen in Geneva debated the future of Europe, less celebrated men were more effectively shaping it. In the drab industrial city of Essen last week, 18 young French labor leaders were learning at firsthand how labor-management relations are handled in the coal fields and steelworks of the Ruhr. In Paris four European airlines-Air France, Alitalia, Belgium's Sabena and West Germany's Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup...
Last May. after two years of practice and water boiling, Harpsichordist Pleasants made her debut in Essen. Response was staggering. "She opened the door to the world of Johann Sebastian Bach," said one critic. Others acclaimed her "sovereign manipulation of tonal line," the subtle clarity of her rock-solid rhythm, taste and imagination. Wrote one fan: "It seems that the dry, tinkling sounds emanating from this delicate box satisfy an inherent longing for an orderly perfection which has long been lost in our vulgar present day." Last week, as Germany's "Hausfrau at the Harpsichord" continued her triumphant tour...