Word: leipzig
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East Germany, which lives in the shadow of its better half to the west, last week mounted a considerable effort to show off its growing economic strength. The Leipzig Trade Fair, celebrating its 800th anniversary, attracted an alltime-high 10,300 exhibitors, including thousands from 75 nations. The outsiders tended to agree that the most Stalinistic satellite in the Soviet orbit lately has made progress of sorts. The East Germans displayed and sold their own well-wrought machine tools, electronic devices and office equipment; they reached into their foreign-exchange reserve to order millions of dollars' worth of British...
Wastepaper Figures. "Strange," wrote Beckmann in his diary in 1947, "that in every city I always hear the lions roar." He loved the street-scene turmoil and crammed his major canvases with crowds of jostling, uncongenial characters. Son of a Leipzig flour merchant, Beckmann was already a success at the age of 30 when World War I broke out. To avoid killing, he volunteered for the medical corps. Still, the constant exposure to slaughter, which he often drew, punctured his optimism so destructively that 30 years later he wondered if war had wounded his soul...
...celebrate the 300th anniversary of the day Luther posted his 95 theses on the Wittenberg Church. Although museum officials in Schonberg are still examining the newly found ring, it is believed to be Luther's original. The wedding ring worn by Luther's wife is in a Leipzig museum...
...political separation, since Germany has been a nation for only 75 years in her long lifetime, but rather the pain of a sharp cultural rupture. "There we are," Leonhardt concludes, "saddled again with a mission and not at all sure which one. Bulwark against the east? Bulwark against Leipzig and Dresden [both East German cities]? If it were a question of industry, thoroughness, organizing talent, we would have nothing to fear. But I am afraid the world is going to ask of us just what we have least of: the imagination to understand somebody else's point of view...
...Minor and C Minor, the C Major and F Major Toccatas and Fugues. Required by his contract as concertmaster to Duke Wilhelm Ernst to turn out "one new piece monthly," he produced 19 cantatas in three years, a deadline-crowding achievement that attuned him to his tenure in Leipzig, where he composed something like 265 cantatas in 21 years...