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Munich of the '70s has sometimes been compared with Berlin of the '20s. In fact, Munich lacks the intellectual electricity of those brilliant Berlin days. It is also much too innocent. Still, it is the place where most Germans prefer to live, and candid Münchner concede that it is the "other" Germans who »JJJ lend the city much of its style. Only one out of three Münchner is Bavarian-born, while about 15% of the city's population is non-German. It is this cultural blend that finally gives the city...
...uncommon blue-Italian blue, insist the proud Münchner-canopies the 890-acre expanse of wood, trail, meadow and stream known as the Englischer Garten. From their benches, the forgotten aged stare across the little lake into the sun or watch in silence the absurd parade of ducks and drakes or the wheeling Frisbees in the sky. Lazing in a field are clusters of young longhairs, some of them students, some wanderers from other nations. They all speak the same language: guitar and hash. Elector Karl Theodor designed this park in 1789. It was not Karl Theodor who inscribed...
...nchner is concerned, the rest of Germany is Prussia-cold, square, unbearably dull. For all his exaggeration, he has a point...
Germans in New York City's Yorkville drank Münchner stolidly, foresaw a quick Nazi victory, worried only over the homeward trip of the Bremen...
...John D. Rockefeller Sr., nudes, still life, Mussolini holding his nose), seven color plates (Hogarth's The Graham Children, Correggio's Venus, Mercury and Cupid). Editor is Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant, capable but not popular in Fleet Street. He first made a name on the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, was tossed into jail for six months when Hitler came to power, wrote a book about it (I was Hitler's Prisoner), then built up Weekly Illustrated for Odhams Press Ltd. An indicated 150,000 customers stepped up to buy the first (July) issue, printed and distributed...