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...than a decade: the adventurous geometry of "late modernists" such as I.M. Pei and Edward Larrabee Barnes; the office atrium pioneered by Kevin Roche; the glass- , enclosed elevators popularized by John Portman's Hyatt hotel designs; and the spirited use of color epitomized by the Miami firm Arquitectonica. The German-born Jahn, 45, an architect celebrated--some would say notorious--for his arch flourishes with high-tech elements, had applied some of the same ideas in his own earlier work, notably his 1982 First Source Center atrium in South Bend, Ind. Moreover, in such designs as his witty 1982 addition...
When the Cleveland Orchestra announced that Christoph von Dohnányi would become its new music director beginning this season, he seemed an unlikely choice. Christoph von who? The German-born conductor, 55, grandson of Hungarian Composer Ernst von Dohnányi, had made his career in Germany not principally as an orchestral maestro but as an opera conductor and administrator, most recently at the Hamburg State Opera. He had a reputation as a 20th century music specialist, a distinction that has little appeal at the American box office. By contrast, the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the proudest...
DIED. Carl J. Friedrich, 83, German-born Harvard professor of government for nearly half a century and the author of numerous influential books on Western political thought and philosophy; in Lexington, Mass. A prolific scholar, provocative teacher and constitutional expert particularly noted for pioneering works on totalitarianism (An Introduction to Political Theory), Friedrich served as an adviser to the American military governor of West Germany after World War II, helping shape the constitution of the Federal Republic...
Technically dazzling, emotionally searing, although ideologically bathetic, Hans Werner Henze's We Come to the River has just been given its American premiere by the Santa Fe Opera, eight years after its first performance in London. It was a welcome event: the prolific German-born Marxist composer, 58, has created one of the postwar period's most accomplished operas...
DIED. Otto Eckstein, 56, staunchly liberal German-born economist, Harvard professor, member of the Council of Economic Advisers under Lyndon Johnson and longtime participant on TIME'S Board of Economists, who promoted the science of econometric forecasting into an indispensable tool of government and business planning and founded a highly successful business, Data Resources Inc., which, when sold to McGraw-Hill in 1979, made him a multimillionaire; of cancer; in Boston...