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...public theatre in the country. The film has been banned by order of the Court in Massachusetts, and the Commonwealth has sued its producer, Grove Press. It is curious, indeed, that a film which has been honored in the New York Film Festival, won first prize in the Mannheim Film Festival in Germany, and two of the three prizes in the Festival dei Populi in Italy, cannot be seen by the citizens of this state...
Without some history and sociology, then, Lichtheim's notion of a "dialectic between the French Revolution and German Counter-Revolution" is not overly helpful. Nor do his unfortunately diffuse comments on ideology represent a theoretical advance: in the 20's Mannheim was rejoicing at the possibilities for intellectual advance provided by the collision of cultures and the dissolution of old systems. Still, look the book over. Even when Lichtheim loses his battles, which is far from always, he does it with panache...
...seemed equal to all those problems-and more. Son of a Hessian farmer, he became a Luftwaffe general-staff major assigned to assessing war needs. "That was my first strong contact with industrial planning," he says. At war's end he took a clerk's job in Mannheim with the German subsidiary of the Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Cie, which makes all kinds of electrical equipment from home appliances to locomotives. Within twelve years, Lotz rose to chairman. He and the Swiss fell out over a small computer company in which he had invested to compete with...
Readings for the course will include works from Mannheim. Weber, Lipset, Riesman, C. Wright Mills, Marx, Keynes, Schumpeter and others...
...debris, rebuild the fleet, deepen the rivers and improve the country's 65 inland ports. Reason for continued reliance on the Continent's oldest form of transportation: it is still the cheapest way to ship bulk freight. To move a metric ton of coal from Duisburg to Mannheim, for example, costs $1.87 by water, $4.87 by rail...