Word: teutonicisms
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Thus Hamburg's Die Welt, in an atypically Teutonic blend of business judgment and sentiment, last week summed up the exit of the grand old gadgeteer of the West German auto industry. With his Borgward auto complex some $48 million in debt, 70-year-old Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward...
The evenings can grow long at Germany's Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, and many an operagoer has cast a furtive glance at his watch as the Teutonic roll and tumble thundered on. Furtive watch watchers may not know that backstage, opera-house technicians have been keeping their own Teutonically...
Author Gaiser's story is expertly plotted and for the most part cleanly written. But he calls on characters who are dead to testify about the shortcomings of the living and forces his moral points in weighty Teutonic terms. Much of what he says about the new Germany may...
(4 of 11) fast that Britain's Institute of Directors lists 25,000 members; a decade ago there were only 400. Also spreading is the U.S. style of low-markup, high-volume operation. Germany's Mail-Order Magnate Joseph Neckerman has grown into a sort of Teutonic Sears...
The Captain From Koepenick is a full color re-make of a mid-30's film about the Prussian military at the turn of the century. The story involves an ex-convict, who, becoming piqued with the government, buys an old infantry uniform, commandeers a dozen healthy, helmeted Berlin youths...