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...office of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Their defection came four weeks after Hans Joachim Tiedge, one of Bonn's top counterespionage officials, had fled to East Germany, along with three other suspected Communist agents. The Willner case prompted renewed demands for the resignation of Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann, who oversees Bonn's domestic intelligence agency...
Drawing their inspiration from the work of the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, the production team of Lehnhoff and Designer John Conklin created an emotionally resonant mythic landscape. The poetic ruin near which Siegfried encounters the Rhinemaidens in Gotterdammerung, for example, was suggested by Friedrich's Winter, and the staging uses other Friedrich images prominently. It was a back-to-nature approach, a middle ground between the conservative 1975 Seattle Ring, which was strongly influenced by Arthur Rackham's 1910-1911 book illustrations, and the experiments at Bayreuth, which included both Chereau's radical vision and Hall's muddled...
...story on the U.S. tourist migration, TIME correspondents around the world spoke with government officials, exchange dealers, bankers, travel agents, hoteliers and shopkeepers. In Europe, center of the friendly invasion, the magazine's reporters buttonholed American travelers to learn about the latest buys. They, along with Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, an enthusiastic vacationer who wrote the story, also drew on their own experiences coping with a dollar that used to be weak and is now strong...
...story on the U.S. tourist migration, TIME correspondents around the world spoke with government officials, exchange dealers, bankers, travel agents, hoteliers and shopkeepers. In Europe, center of the friendly invasion, the magazine's reporters buttonholed American travelers to learn about the latest buys. They, along with Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, an enthusiastic vacationer who wrote the story, also drew on their own experiences coping with a dollar that used to be weak and is now strong...
...important and previously "lost" work whose intellectual voyage takes one back to the origins of the West's Oriental fascination. Raymond Schwab's book is a major critical undertaking whose ambitious task is reinterpreting a self-conscious moment crucial in the development of contemporary western civilization and thought. Quoting Friedrich Schlegel's quest, "we must seek the Supreme Romanticism in the Orient," Schwab's original hypothesis attempts, with compelling evidence, to trace 19th century Europe's Romantic longings to the Oriental influence Romanticism's obsession with originality is claimed to have been inspired by awakened interest in its origins...