Word: thuringia
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...view were 56 paintings by such contemporary artists as Hazel Janicki, John Marin, Ben Shahn. Within an hour of the opening, eight paintings were sold. Texas' ten-gallon prices: from $50 for Woman Setting Table by Jenne Magafan to $500 for Lyonel Feininger's Village in Thuringia...
...Brandenburg, once the domain of the Margrave of Brandenburg for whom Johann Sebastian Bach composed his six famous concertos: Saxony, birthplace of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire; Mecklenburg, once obedient to the Duke of Saxony; Saxony-Anhalt, which produced Martin Luther and George Frederick Handel; Thuringia, a center of Luther's Reformation...
...possibly to keep the oldtimers from being contaminated by the West; the last of Russia's veterans of World War II are now going home, and are being replaced by tough teen-agers from the Soviet Union. In recent months the Russians have shifted their troop concentrations to Thuringia, southwest. corner of the Soviet zone, to counter growing U.S. strength across the border...
...entire area-which includes the ore-heavy Erzgebirge and Harz Mountains, and stretches roughly from the Czech frontier across Thuringia to the borders of the U.S. and British zones-is tightly shut off from the outside world. It is heavily guarded by Red German police and by a special force...
...east zone's Humboldt University, observed the 200th anniversary of Bach's death with a speech entitled "Bach and Social Cohesion." The title was barely out of his mouth when one listener piped up, "What has that to do with Bach?" When Dr. Meyer remarked that Thuringia-born Bach was nowhere honored as much as in the Soviet Union, another bellowed, "Aha! we knew this was coming." More than 100, who had come to hear Bach's music, walked...