Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME says the aphorism on Mr. Gardner's desk, "Das Beste ist gut genug," Is by an "unknown" writer. Actually, it is by the not entirely unknown German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In his Italienische Reise (Italian Journey'), we find: "In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug" (In art the best is good enough...
...amazing success. This week Rumania will become the first Eastern European nation to ex, change ambassadors with Bonn. Hungary and Bulgaria are expected to follow Rumania's example within the next few months, and promising negotiations also are under way with Czechoslova-w rn?1-8 alarms East German Boss Walter Ulbncht, 73, who fears that West German presence in the East might iso ate his own unlovely Stalinist regime Jlbricht has done his best to blunt the Bonn drive. His ambassadors in east-bloc capitals have been talking themselves hoarse about the dangers of West German revanche...
...German Jew who fled the Nazis, Lindner was exposed to the earthy expressionism of Max Beckmann and George Grosz, and he admired the smooth machine-surfaces with which Fernand Leger packaged reality. In the U.S., he developed an appreciation for advertising imagery as an illustrator...
Three weeks ago, a pretty German became the first known hit-and-run skier to be arrested. Skiing down an Austrian Alp, she had crashed into another girl, jabbing a ski pole through her cheek, and then disentangled herself to schuss merrily on down without so much as a word. But because no law covers the situation precisely, it is uncertain just what will happen to the offender...
...million raid. The U.S.'s Federal Communications Commission thwarted that move, but Paribas still expects to wind up with two seats on Columbia's board of directors. Last week Reyre reached across yet another border by announcing that Paribas has acquired a share in the West German business bank of S. J. Warburg. "He is very smart, very brave," says admiring Frank Manheim, a partner in Manhattan's Lehman Bros. "And he knows what he wants: to be the biggest banker in France...