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Some of the refugees found the U.S. a far from terrifying place even in the '50s. Most of them were quartered in a New Weimar set among palm trees. In Strangers in Paradise, John Russell Taylor, film critic of the Times of London, tells ironic tales out of court about the Hollywood settlers. Actors like Conrad Veidt and Otto Preminger, fleeing from Hitler, were hired to impersonate Nazis in war movies. Ernst Lubitsch, eager to propagandize against the Third Reich, directed a delicate, tentative farce, To Be or Not to Be, starring Jack Benny as a Polish ham actor...
Instead of rewriting the history of Vietnam (McKibben's favorite subject), Louis chose to praise the rise of the Green Party in West Germany. If one is anti-NATO, anti-American, somewhat pro-Soviet, and a neutralist who hearkens back to the disorder of Weimar, then I suppose one could support the Greens. They are a loosely organized agglomeration of environmentalist and so-called peace parties who envision a firmly neutralist Europe (along the lines of Finland perhaps?), but their main accomplishment, should they get the 5 percent of the vote needed to become represented in parliament, would...
Behrens' idea of wedding artistic form to machine production strongly influenced the Bauhaus school of design, which his former assistant Walter Gropius founded in 1919 at Weimar. In graphics as in industrial design and architecture, the Bauhaus stripped away historic associations and ornaments in a search for essences. Letter forms no longer followed the paths of the scribe's pen or engraver's burin, but were constructed with ruler and compasses. The new type faces, posters and symbols were not always easily legible. But they were blunt and provocative, the ideal style for mass communication, advertising...
...certainly not a consensus behind the kind of progressive environmental and economic reforms that the country needs most. Basic changes in the political system--moves toward parliamentarism--are even more unlikely. We will be lucky indeed if America manages to avoid the kind of "escape for freedom" a la Weimar that Phillips forecasts in his more lugubrious moments. Still, if there is any hope to be found in this otherwise dismal picture, it lies in the fact that none of the major organized constituencies--including the New Right--is openly advocating an authoritarian "escape." It remains to be seen...
Societies from ancient Rome to Weimar Germany have suffered the consequences of such runaway prices. That kind of inflation usually tears apart the very fabric of a nation. When its currency no longer has any meaning, a country often loses its sense of values. Saving and planning for the future seem foolish; speculators prosper. Says Henry Wallich, a governor of the Federal Reserve: "Inflation is like a country where nobody speaks the truth...