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After earning his doctorate, Allport spent three years studying in Germany and England. He was one of the first non-German popularizers of the theories of Gestalt psychology, which suggests that concepts are recorded by the mind as wholes, not as the sum of their component elements...
When Clay agreed to fight Mildenberger last week in Frankfurt, the first thing he insisted on was an impartial non-German referee. That point won, the fight figured to be a cinch. Bookies made Cassius a l-to-10 favorite, and even the promoters-with a fat TV contract in the bag-made little effort to build up the German as a challenger. "Do you think our Karl has a chance?" a Frankfurt cab driver asked one of the promoters. Sighed his passenger: "To live...
Bayreuth's soul searchers today are 60% non-German, of whom a large proportion are wealthy Jews and Frenchmen, the two groups Wagner professedly cared for least, but who now happily pay a top price of $20 per night. But even they still have to sit on the hard, wicker-backed chairs installed by Richard Wagner. Says Wieland: "Grandfather didn't intend his audience to have fun. The uncomfortable seats stimulate the audience to concentrate, listen and experience greatness...
Porridge to Pickles. Since such an increase normally attracts foreign speculators, the West German Parliament is expected to pass a 25% capital-gains tax to discourage all non-German bondholders. The reason, says Bundesbank President Karl Blessing, is that the rate rise is meant solely as a warning to West German industry. The nation's most distinguished economists warned this month that price stability has become Germany's most pressing problem. Wages rise about 10% every year. Overall prices jumped 2.9% in a year, but the average concealed some rough rises: a 6.7% hike in rents, an increase...
...series of curt, kaleidoscopic essays loosely tied to the framework of a trip Leonhardt made through Germany with a group of non-German friends, he discourses on anti-Semitism ("Since they murdered the Jews, the Germans are becoming more and more stupid"), the abominable German tourist ("His yearning to communicate assumes loudspeaker proportions as soon as he crosses the border"), the political decline of West German Protestantism (they are "protest-weary"). But Leonhardt is too thorough a journalist not to buttress his arguments with shocks of statistics and a quorum of quotes from sources as disparate as Madame...