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Until 1980. Three months ago, after the "Grand Coalition" Cabinet adopted the Socialist view, a revolt broke out in the ranks of the Chris tian Democrats. It was led by Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss's Bavarian branch of the party. The Bavarians, who argue that it is time to restrict the search for war criminals to major offenders, demanded a so-called "differentiated approach." It would treat the criminals who gave the orders for genocide and massacres far more severely than those who carried them out or were involved in lesser crimes. Fearing that he would be outflanked...
...Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, probably the most stimulating and revolutionary design school of all time. Artists Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky taught alongside Architects Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, among others, sharing their excitement with one another and the students. They brought together all the arts: weaving and furniture-making, as well as graphics, painting and architecture. Their work, regardless of medium, material or size, recognized the force of industrialism and the beauty of the machine. It was an entirely new way of looking at the world...
...Harvard Film Study--"An American Tragedy" by Josef von Sternberg and "Design for Living" by Ernst Lubitsch, Carpenter Center Lecture Hall. Admission...
...Josef Albers, D.F.A., painter and teacher...
...Fidelia, with a cast that included American Tenor Jess Thomas and Soprano Leonie Rysanek of New York's Metropolitan Opera. The week's musical highlight was undoubtedly Mozart's Don Giovanni, which was performed on the gala May night in 1869 when the Emperor Franz Josef presided over the opening of the huge sandstone operatic palace. In the pit last week was Conductor Josef Krips, who revived Don in 1945 in the grim days immediately after the war, when the company took temporary refuge in the Theater an der Wien...