Word: strasbourgers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miami's new cultural hero is slim, personable, vibrant Alain Lombard, 32. Director of the Strasbourg Music Festival in his native France, as well as a regular guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, Lombard has led the Philharmonic for six years and given it new dash, style and popularity...
...planes and trains, of course, are not only for business. Strasbourgers share the mania for seeing Europe first -even in winter. Many families are spending some of the gray days of February and March on tours. Four days in Rome are offered for $60, Athens for $100. Even for those who do not travel, Europe is in evidence. In Strasbourg's new suburban supermarkets, shoppers pick their way through oranges from Spain, smoked bacon from the Black Forest, mortadella from Bologna, gingersnaps from England and coffee-flavored hopjes from Holland...
Bilingualism is one of the few positive inheritances of Strasbourg's checkered past. Almost everyone speaks both German and French, as well as the local throat-curdling dialect. Strasbourg's stay-at-homes need only change a channel for a new language experience. They get the three German TV channels on their sets as well as the three French ones. With a bit of antenna fiddling they can also pick up Swiss and Luxembourg television, although it is hard to imagine why they would want...
...today than at any time since the Armistice. "They are buying back what they lost in two wars," complains a Paris-based salesman. "It's just a different form of occupation." Perhaps mindful of that possibility, French educational authorities have forbidden the teaching of German-language courses in Strasbourg primary schools...
Even in Europe-minded Strasbourg, there are limits to Europeanization. Although city planners discuss with their counterparts in Kehl such common development problems as new bridges and garbage-disposal plants, the overall city plan for the year 2000 is based purely on projected French developments. French national pride is hurt by the daily migration of Alsatian workers to better-paying jobs in German plants. Beyond that, the vast majority of Strasbourgers are either indifferent to, or ignorant of, the European Parliament that meets six times a year in their city. In their defense, it should be said that if they...