Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recalling his German roots, Offenbach combines Oktoberfest-inspired scenes of tavern life and male-bonding-over-beer with the equally Teutonic theme of sensitive young men pining over that special Fraulein. (Think Goethe.) In this opera, the eponymous character Hoffmann (Jerry Shuman) dreams of not just one Fraulein, but a trinity of them who together form that elusive ideal--the perfect woman...
...neither will Marcus Stern's production of Woyzeck at the American Repertory Theater. Based on a series of fragments by the German playwright, Georg Buchner, the work was hailed as the first truly modern play when it first appeared on stage, some eighty years after it had been written in 1836. The last work Buchner worked on before he died of influenza at twenty-three, the collection of vignettes was performed to great success in 1913 in Germany. The stark Woyzeck diagnosed and condemned the nation's sick soul at a time characterized by psychoanalysis and introspection...
What a beast! The pumped-up U.S. dollar has been kicking sand in the face of the yen and the mark. Last week the greenback climbed past 123 Japanese yen, a four-year high, and traded 1.65 against the German mark, a 2 1/2-year peak. Barely two years ago the U.S. currency traded at its postwar low. Europe and Japan love a strong dollar, since it lowers the price of their exports, which can stimulate more sales for their struggling economies. But cheaper Toyotas aren't good for everyone--for instance, General Motors and Chrysler reported weak sales last week...
...inside government buildings. Capitalizing on her reputation for straight talk, the Secretary of State told Italian leaders yesterday that she's disturbed by Italy's cozy commercial relationship with "rogue states" Iran, Libya and Cuba. At a press conference in Bonn, Albright took on the high-profile debate over German treatment of the Church of Scientology, dismissing as "historically inaccurate and totally distasteful" criticism that the measures being taken against Scientologists are reminiscent of Nazi treatment of the Jews. Stopping next in Paris, Albright, speaking partially in French, delivered a eulogy for late American Ambassador Pamela Harriman before chewing over...
...important gesture to remove tensions between Switzerland and the US. "It's more than likely that other companies will follow suit soon," Mark van Huisseling, business editor with a Zurich weekly, told TIME Daily. "Several other Swiss businesses producing war materiel operated in the region along the German border...