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...Leipzig music lovers gasped when Henry Cowell sat down at the piano: the young American composer was slamming the keys with his forearms. When he continued the attack with forearms, fingers and fists, Leipzigers got to their feet, and the anti-forearm group tangled with the let's-hear-him-out crowd. The police, that evening in 1923, finally led a score of the noisiest demonstrators away...
...Crayfish. Father Jakob Freud was a just and kindly wool merchant, but his principal weakness, woolgathering, kept the growing family poor. In 1859, when Sigmund was three, father Jakob abandoned his son's birthplace, the Moravian town of Freiburg, and went after better business first in Leipzig and then Vienna. Freud so hated this uprooting that he detested Vienna ever after. To travel, to leave Vienna behind, became a lifelong passion. But one of the greatest love-hate paradoxes in Freud's life is that while regularly railing at Vienna, he stuck closely to it. For 47 years...
...fits Germans the way a saddle fits a cow." The job required an agent as cold and slippery as a block of ice, an unregenerate Dr. Faustus, to whom all East Germany would be a Margarete. Walter Ulbricht was ready. For 25 years the tailor's son from Leipzig had pursued the dark alchemy of Communist intrigue in preparation for the call...
...slowed down to allow production of more consumer goods. Some of the vast state stocks of food and clothing, a monument to Ulbricht's heavy-handed insistence on "state planning," were released to consumer retail channels. Many socialized plants and farms were returned to private operation. In the Leipzig area alone last week, according to a Communist announcement, 70 shops, 40 factories, 15 wholesale houses and 46 collectivized farms were handed back to their old owners. Crop, livestock and food quotas imposed on farmers were cut back as much as 25%. Release was promised to "the great majority...
...Leipzig, 1,400 zinc and steel workers marched on strike, tore hats and guns away from traffic policemen who tried to halt them, grabbed Leipzig Mayor Uhlich and forced him to march at the head, his chest covered with a sign saying: "Down with the Government!" Where one German fell dead from a Vopo's bullet, the revolters heaped flowers and set up a sign: "Here a German was shot to death by a German...