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...residents of hospitals, orphanages and homes for the aged rather than for themselves. Pacific Southwest Airlines is giving a party for 1,500 persons in one of its San Diego hangars, but is asking that each guest bring a gift to be distributed in veterans' hospitals. Explains Lloyd Leipzig at United Artists Corp. in Los Angeles: "If you announced a big Christmas party, ennui would set in." Says Robert E. Sibson, president of Sibson & Co. Inc., a Princeton, N.J., management consulting firm: "Employees would rather have the company spend money on something else, like putting it in their salaries...
...rate, and many stores cut another 15% off the prices of goods bought with dollars. On the flourishing black markets in Tanzania, Indian businessmen who are being forced out of the country by "Africanization"' are buying dollars at twice the legal rate of exchange. And at the Leipzig Fair, East Germany's Communists offer the pre-August rates of 4.17 East German marks for the capitalist dollar...
...Surrealism-which Von Adlmann sensibly does not do-would be to miss the peculiar value of his art. The Surrealists were able to build their Tower of Babel on the work of Freud. But as far as is known, Klinger had never heard of the Viennese doctor. Born in Leipzig in 1857, and brought up in the correct milieu of provincial German society, he MIherited no work plans for dealing with his own unconscious images. He simply laid them out, naked or veiled with classical mythology. At the same time, Klinger was aware of a split between his official paintings...
...unfilled holes, the yearned for and the barely attainable; his is a personal coming to terms with a world of irreconcilable powers. The painter bodies forth optimism ... the draftsman cannot escape his more negative vision, beyond appearances." So Klinger the painter moved sedately between a professorship in Leipzig and his country vineyard, turning out the portraits and allegories his patrons sought, and ignoring the obsessions which Klinger the draftsman could not deny himself...
Holiest of Days. Then, while doing postgraduate work in jurisprudence at Leipzig, Rosenzweig met a converted Jew, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, who had abandoned his Judaism for Lutheranism. In a climactic all-night conversation in July 1913, Rosenzweig agreed to follow Rosenstock's lead, but vowed to enter the church "as a Jew," like the earliest Christians. While preparing for the leap, Rosenzweig went to services in a small Orthodox synagogue in Berlin on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. He never publicly revealed what happened to him at the service, but he emerged from it a changed...