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...what fires up Schweitzer and a growing number of industrialists is an 80 year-old chemical trick that actually allows coal to run cars. The process, in which coal is converted into synthetic gasoline or diesel, was first developed by two German scientists in 1928, allowing Nazi Germany to produce more than 124,000 barrels a day in 1944, the last full year of World War II. Sasol, a South African firm, has the only existing large-scale plants, and operates in 20 countries. In the U.S. advocates have suggested for decades that "coal-to-liquid" production...
...Nouveau squiggles, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Victorian advertisements and early Hollywood movies. Thanks to the invention of DayGlo in the late '40s, artists turned this ragbag into something hallucinatory. This was the art that teenagers peeled off hoardings to hang in their bedrooms. In New Aleph Sanctury (1963-71) by German-born Mati Klarwein, painted panels crawling with multicolored figures form a small room that glows like stained glass. Richard Lindner, a genuine product of '20s Germany whose style influenced the animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968), is represented by one oil painting of a striped-jerseyed rock star with...
...group of artists who'd found refuge from World War I in Switzerland were gathered around a table at Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire, arguing about a label for themselves and their work. They settled this dispute, according to art lore, by thrusting a letter opener randomly into a French-German dictionary. The word it pointed to - dada - has many meanings: "hobbyhorse" in French, "cube" in certain Italian dialects and "yes, yes" in Slavic languages. That night, they agreed on a name but continued to dispute what the word - and the movement - signified. Tristan Tzara, a Romanian poet and the author...
Backstage at the Loeb, a minor case of mayhem ensues as students rush about in preparation for their highly anticipated season-opening Loeb Mainstage production, the controversial German play, “Lulu.” Opening night is just four days away, but the man in charge doesn’t seem worried. “It’s traveling the country telling stories—and collecting even more while you tell them,” says Visiting Director Brendan Hughes. “It’s life, concentrated.” A freelance professional director...
...problems caused in the wake of the hurricanes could have been avoided if people had taken responsibility for themselves. Murray Hills Auckland, New Zealand For Gradual Reform I'm not sure Germany's election stalemate proved that the political system is in crisis [Oct. 3]. Did it mean the German people deeply oppose political reform? I don't think so. They are divided, however, about the pace and degree of change. Those who want to proceed slowly were comforted by Gerhard Schröder's campaign speeches and put off by Angela Merkel's. That's why Merkel...