Word: nther
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year to form Ruhrkohle, A.G., a state-funded giant that aims eventually to mine 85% of the Ruhr's coal. Everybody wanted the Rossenray in the combine mine-but who would pay for Arndt's allowance? Naturally, the combine would have to do so, insisted Günther Vogelsang, the chairman of the executive board of the Krupp empire, who has brought the company back from the brink of bankruptcy in 1967 to the point where it now expects a profit this year. But others rebelled, notably the powerful German miners' union. The miners figured out that...
...minutely supervised the spare, expressionistic sets designed by German-born Günther Schneider-Siemssen, a longtime Von Karajan protégé. The extraordinary lighting design, ranging for the most part from grey to basic black, was Von Karajan's own. The cast was handpicked, and the hand was his. He guided the Met's orchestra through what amounted to a graduate seminar on Wagnerian sonority, galvanizing that frequently scraggly ensemble into a pliant, rich tonal fabric...
...Manhattan, Tiffany Color Inc. is experimenting with producing oil paintings from color photographs on canvases that are printed with marks imitating the artist's brush strokes. In Bavaria, West Germany, a reclusive engraver named Günther Dietz, 48, has developed a variant on the silk-screen method that has already produced copies of Rembrandt, Dufy, Chagall, Degas, Cezanne and Marini that are almost indistinguishable from the originals...
Understanding Salve. Günther, in fact, entered his career without benefit of even a high school degree. He was informally granted the title of "Doktor" in a Russian-run Czech prison camp, where, despite his own frostbite-caused amputations, he gradually took over treatment of the other German prisoners. It was a humanitarian impulse, prompted by the fact that the guards paid little attention to the prisoners' health. When he was released in 1946, Günther decided to retain the title. He added seven years to his age for credibility, said he had graduated from Prague University...
...might have gone on to graceful retirement. By an apparent stroke of luck, a man of the same name had in fact graduated from Prague University in 1943 and then had obligingly disappeared. But in a country where papers, records, stamps and signatures are of surpassing importance, Günther's eventual exposure was perhaps not so surprising. It was the initial lie about his age that tripped him up. Shuffling old and new papers, a minor West Berlin bureaucrat noticed the seven year discrepancy in ages; after that, the tissue of Günther's life shredded...