Word: german
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real confusion on the unquiet Western front is over the German problem. On this the Western powers are in disarray. At one side stands the U.S., still inclined to feel that the division of Germany into two nations is, in the long run, both untenable and dangerous, but pledged to seek new ways of solving the "abnormal" situation of isolated West Berlin. At the other extreme stands De Gaulle, who sees no reason to want any change in the German situation, opposes reunification of East and West Germany on the ground that it might mean the end of West Germany...
...biggest in Soviet peacetime history. A single sheet of statistics was handed out to the delegates to study. To judge by it, Soviet citizens may live a bit better in 1960, but far from overtaking the U.S., they will still not have caught up to Polish or East German living standards...
Pianist Richter-Haaser's postwar reputation spread rapidly; he has played with virtually every major European orchestra, been hailed as the successor to such German greats as Gieseking and Backhaus. Says Richter-Haaser ruefully: "I do not go on stage to play wrong notes. But the important thing is the idea. The piano must not be like a machine...
...German market for art and antiques stands at more than $60 million a year, three times what it was before the war. Prices have doubled in the past two years. These startling statistics were underlined last week by the breakneck rush of business at the fourth annual Art and Antiques Fair at Munich's Haus der Kunst, which 'was for many years a U.S. officers' club. 0f Gothic figures and paintings, one in four was imported from the U.S. It was a far cry from the days just after World War II, when starving German families were...
...some conservative dealers complained. Said an icy-eyed observer of the new German collectors: "The way the market stands today, there is simply not enough stuff available, so anything goes. Career girls and young couples invariably start with a 'genuine' baroque angel cum gilded wings. A stabilized bank account calls for a Biedermeier dining-room set. The first sign of real affluence is a Gothic Madonna-polychrome for beginners, and Riemenschneider brown for the sophisticated. Real collecting comes later...