Word: leben
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...historic trade routes of Southern Europe, drinking in the influence of other cultures, Munich has always been chiefly absorbed with the manufacture and enjoyment of Bavarian Gemütlichkeit (some of which is identified by its sudsy head). It's all very apparent today, this spirit of "leben und leben lassen"-a cheery apathy and beery tolerance combined with a benign condescension toward anything German that is not also old Bavarian. The ambience of the cities to the north-those pompous Prussians-can be described in straight lines and right angles. Munich gives you embroidered corners and fanciful curlicues...
Proceeds from his memoirs, Ein Leben (A Life), have helped Heartbreaker and Transplanter Christiaan Barnard to entertain his beautiful young fiancee in jet-set elegance. But the woman scorned, ex-Wife Louwtjie Barnard, 47, says those memoirs occasionally lapse into pure -or impure-invention. For instance, Barnard's recollection that he had left his wife's bed on their wedding night and watched a televised boxing match instead. Louwtjie told reporters in Munich that the surgeon "never was a gentleman," adding, "but I always was a lady." She had a final warning...