Word: friedrichs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Monday morning, as he was reading from the work of the German author Friedrich Schiller, Shcharansky was told to take off his prison uniform and don civilian clothing. Escorted by four KGB agents, he was then flown to a Moscow airport and put aboard another plane, which took off immediately. "Judging from the sun," he said later, "I concluded that we were flying toward the west. I was pleased because it seemed I was leaving the Soviet Union." When he asked the KGB agents where they were heading, one replied that he was authorized to say Shcharansky was being...
...Friedrich Karl Flick is the reclusive West German owner of a $4 billion industrial empire, a steel, chemical and paper manufacturer that has been controlled by his family for 77 years. His father Friedrich Flick was convicted at Nuremberg of war crimes and served five years in jail before his death in 1972. Last week Flick, 58, announced that he will sell his company to Deutsche Bank. "The decision has been difficult for me," he said. The sale price was estimated to be about $2 billion, which makes it the largest takeover in West German history. Deutsche Bank immediately announced...
...comet could not be explained solely by gravity. He proposed that "ether," an invisible theoretical substance that at the time was believed to pervade space, exerted drag on the nucleus, slowing it down. After observing flares streaming from Comet Halley's surface in 1836, another German astronomer, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, conceived a more plausible concept, the fountain theory. Bessel proposed that a comet was a loose clump of particles. He suggested the flares were fountains of these motes erupting from its nucleus and that they acted as a brake. Bessel's work was largely ignored at the time...
...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...