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...Time in the Old Town Tonight." There is also, for the piccolo-playing Dorothy, a punningly titled "Play Us a Polka, Dot," and, farther on, an example of the old unaccompanied barbershop quartet (actually a quintet here), "Pretty Jennie Lee." The opening scene, in proprietor Schmidt's beer-garden, provides the endearing folkish song "'Twas Not So Long Ago," which points to Schmidt's immigrant origins by being sung first in German by him and then in English by his daughter Addie; and this song easily survives its three reprises in later scenes...
German Expressionism, though a "movement" that lasted only fifteen years (1905-1920) consisted of two such steps. The founding of Die Brucke--"The Bridge"--by Ernst Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl (who was rather a sleeping partner), crystallized a common effort to develop a new artistic voice. These academy-trained ex-architecture students consciously rejected the socially imposed aesthetic of turn-of-the-century Germany, summed up in the refined nuances of the "Jugendstil" school of painting, and tried to work from an aesthetic of strong, elemental statements. Though anti-bourgeois in their rejection...
...also distinguished by its Grosz drawings, examples of his most incisive social criticism, and by a few single gems: Franz Marc's Two Studies for Horses (a preliminary sketch for his painting, Blue Horses), Max Beckmann's horrific The Last Ones (1919), Otto Dix's almost surreal Klara (1920), Schmidt-Rottluff's Seated Nude Facing Left...
Although the performance of the field men was striking, the running events suffered from a conspicuous lack of Crimson talent. Due to the various exigencies of injuries and academic ocnflicts, such Harvard top guns as Jeff Campbell, Todd Hooks, Paul Organ, and Gary Schmidt were absent from the meet. The lack of a Harvard sprint relay team was an unfortunate result...
...remains Europe's economic locomotive. It has just about recovered its preslump level of industrial output (97%), and its export performance is awesome; the trade surplus totaled $14 billion in 1976. But unemployment remains high at more than 1 million, or 4.6% of the labor force. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has forecast a 5% growth rate in 1977, but several reliable economic institutes now expect a shortfall, indicating the need for stimulus. Despite fears of inflation, Schmidt is backing a $7 billion revival program with $1.5 billion to be spent this year...