Word: franz
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...with a foreign policy statement that echoed the Socialist stand. Even Christian Democrats were gingerly deserting some of the old doctrines. Speaking to a rally of young party members, Kiesinger allowed that "the establishment of good relations with our neighbors to the east is an obvious necessity." And Franz Josef Strauss, the powerful boss of the party's Bavarian branch, publicly backed away from his insistence on West German participation in a NATO nuclear strike force, thus opening the way for a more conciliatory policy toward the East...
...third, Kiesinger had a comfortable margin: 137 to 81 for Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and 26 for C.D.U. Parliamentary Leader Rainer Barzel. One reason was that Kiesinger had been away from the Bundestag for eight years, thus had fewer enemies. He also had a powerful friend: Franz Josef Strauss, the burly boss of the Bavarian branch of the party, which had publicly endorsed Kiesinger the day before. Another was that he fitted the C.D.U.'s concept of a candidate by being not too Gaullist to alienate the party's Atlanticists and not too Catholic to offend the Protestants...
...thing, the Free Democrats were now saying that they would not rejoin a Cabinet under Erhard. Burly, ambitious Franz Josef Strauss, who is boss of the Bavarian wing of the Christian Democrats, was elbowing Erhard by threatening to pull his six ministers out of the government unless the Chancellor went ahead and stepped down. And the C.D.U.'s Deputy Leader Rainer Barzel, who had been instrumental in forcing Erhard to face the caucus, was now maneuvering to isolate Erhard from any remaining support. About the only Erhard enemy not on the scene was flinty old (90) Konrad Adenauer. Though...
German expressionists, too, are supposed to be historical relics these days. Take Oskar Kokoschka, for example. In pre-World War I Prague, they gleefully translated his Czech name literally-"bad weed." Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination helped spark World War I, once growled, "That fellow's bones ought to be broken." He wrote plays that people called mad, but mainly he painted pictures that few people liked. Hitler unhesitatingly banned him as "degenerate." Kokoschka cheerfully outlived them all; today, at 80, he is more generative than ever...
...Visitation, an opera based loosely on Franz Kafka's The Trial, is U.S. Composer Gunther Schuller's way of dealing "with the Kafkaesque in the Negro problem." Judging by the response of the Hamburg audience that saw the first performance last week, Schuller has made a good deal...