Word: zollverein
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First up is the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, which opens in June. Next year will see the completion of the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio and the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen, Germany. The Zollverein School and the New Museum are set to open...
...instance, Thanksgiving was a grim affair in the fall of 1962. On Nov. 20 of that year we bemoaned the divisive nature of the Harvard dining halls calling them, "as complicated and mutually restrictive as the customs system of the German states before the Zollverein." Almost 40 years later, Harvard students may still empathize with that sentiment...
...Republican Party, which has issued absurd calls for complete German reunification to 1937's borders, which now include parts of Poland. Kohl reassured Germans across much of the political spectrum as well as Germany watchers around the world by emphasizing the term confederation. With its explicit echoes of the Zollverein, the customs union of German states that existed during the 19th century before Bismarck's unification of the nation, the word summoned an image of a large but unthreatening German entity...
...every legal and public sense, its members cannot generally meet each other at meals without additional expense beyond their board bill; often they cannot eat together at all in University dining halls, which are as complicated and mutually restrictive as the customs system of the German states before the Zollverein...
...prewar. A fourth of the Ruhr miners' homes were destroyed during the war. Today one in every ten miners is forced to leave his family in some other part of Germany, while he lives in a barn or an old air-raid shelter near the pits. At the Zollverein mine, near Essen, 1,500 homeless miners live in bleak, clapboard cabins sprawling in the shadow of the pithead. The turnover among them is immense. "They don't budge in winter," said a mine official. "But when the spring comes round, you see a look in their...