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Reading a recent line of poetry, "Why don't we gather in front of life the way we gather in front of a burning house?" Lars Beckstrom, poet and editor of Och und Bild, suggested that the meaninglessness of today's language may result from the evident disaffection with life...
...company in Europe. Labor's proudest possession is one of the world's few union-owned banks, the Frankfurt-based Bank fur Gemeinwirtschaft, which lately has been engaged in the highly capitalistic practice of gobbling up competitors: it has just bought control of Cologne's Bau- und Handelsbank and Frankfurt's Investitions-und Handelsbank...
...something infantile and slightly ridiculous. What other than the death of young lovers constitutes the theme of such literary works as Romeo and Juliet, Dumas' La Dame aux Camèlias, Maxwell Anderson's Winterset, and practically all of the most popular operas, notably Tristan und Isolde...
...enterprising West Germany. While it is still highly nationalized, West Germany is getting rid of state-owned industry as quickly as possible. Under Erhard's orders, the Ministry for Federal Property, which oversees nationalized companies, is getting ready to sell off the state-owned Vereinigte Elektrizitäts und Bergwerks (VEBA), a coal, chemicals and electric power giant with annual sales of $875 million...
HAYDN: THE STURM UND DRANG SYMPHONIES (Vanguard). Haydn was a bit overwrought in the years when he composed these six pivotal symphonies, but one would never know it from these mellow recordings by Antonio Janigro and the Radio Zagreb Symphony Orchestra. All three LPs are superbly recorded, but Janigro mutes the voice of Haydn's turmoil under a soft quilt of woodwinds...