Word: schiller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DENNIS HOPPER has lost the naivete which made Easy Rider's self-serving romance palatable. But one can't deny that the young director is a sordidly fascinating cultural figure. Two of his friends, director Larry Schiller and writer L. M. Kit Carson, have made a film based on that assumption...
...Germany's industrial production grew at an annual rate of 1.6% in December, compared with 10.5% for that month a year earlier. To combat the 4% rate of inflation, Economics Minister Karl Schiller has used just about every weapon at his disposal: restricted government spending, a 10% income tax surcharge, tightened depreciation allowances and high interest rates. Bayer, the chemical giant, has announced that its profits last year were off by more than one-third, and sad earnings reports are expected from other companies...
...cruelty of war. A founder of several anti-Hitler organizations and delegate in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic, Unruh was a staunch anti-Nazi and went into voluntary exile, first in France, then in the U.S., refusing Hitler's offer to make him "the modern Schiller." Upon returning home in 1948, he spoke as a voice of Germany's conscience, preaching that only personal acceptance of guilt could make up for the past...
Concerts at the United Nations often include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which ends with the choral affirmation of Schiller's Ode to Joy: "All mankind shall be brothers . . ." The U.N. was founded 25 years ago on that dream. Disillusionment over its failure to achieve this goal has become a permanent feeling, like a chronic toothache...
...that reality was made evident by one of the oldest diplomatic devices-a protocol snub. On the final evening of the eleven-day anniversary observance, President Nixon is pinching the visiting U.N. heads of state for a White House dinner. At any rate, when Zubin Mehta conducts the Ninth, Schiller's prophecy will still be unfulfilled...