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...Died. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 91, a founder of the German expressionist school of painting; in West Berlin. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff joined with several other rebelling art students to form a group known as die Brticke (the Bridge) and to search for an art form and sensibility to replace impressionism. Their solution: primary colors laid side by side on the canvas in powerful forms. In 1937 the Nazis termed Schmidt-Rottluffs work "degenerate" and in 1938 burned some of his paintings and later forbade him to paint. In 1967 the city of West Berlin opened a museum built to house...
...capitalism dawned two centuries ago, the profit motive found an able defender. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that profits are the legitimate return for risk and effort and that the "Invisible Hand" of market forces would convert private greed into public benefits. A century later, Karl Marx was not so sure. Arguing the opposite view, he asserted that labor, not capital, was the essential ingredient that added value to goods or raw materials in the manufacturing process. Thus, in his view, profit was the "surplus value" that the capitalist unjustifiably tacked on to the real worth...
Alan Gifford starts off the show unimpressively. His portrayal of the coach is fairly monotonous, showing him as a senile old man incapable of inspriing anyone. Gifford warms up in the third act however and his last soliloquoy, where he quotes his father's last words--"Always remember this; Karl Marx was a Jew"--is profoundly moving and funny...
Died. Rudolf Bultmann, 92, one of Europe's most influential Protestant theologians; in Marburg, Germany. The last survivor of a generation of giants that included Karl Earth and Paul Tillich, Bultmann sought a radical way to make Christianity meaningful to modern man. His seminal notion, "demythologizing," rejected any quest for the historical Jesus; events like the Resurrection, he said, were "myths" believable only in a nonscientific age. They thus detracted from the "kerygma" the existential moral truths that Jesus, and Christianity, represent...