Word: der
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When amateurs of the arts think of outstanding modern architects, the names most likely to pop into their minds are Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Miës van der Rohe. If they know of Marcel Breuer, they usually identify him as the inventor of tubular metal furniture. In the Bauhaus in 1925. 23-year-old Marcel Breuer first designed tubular steel chairs. His designs were promptly pirated and vulgarized, and being identified as a furniture designer has injured Architect Breuer ever since. Visitors last week at Harvard's Robinson Hall, where models and photographs...
...largest automobile factory. Perched there he spoke with the pride and feeling of an automobile salesman on the subject of Germany's new Strength-through-Joy (Kraft durch Freude) flivver. Within easy pointing distance were three slick models for the new 65-miles-per-hour, $396 Volkswagen, which Der Führer expects will one day be as much a part of every German's life as an Ersatz sausage in every pot. "This streamlined four-seater," barked the Fuhrer, "is a mechanical marvel. It can be bought on the installment plan for six Reichsmarks a week, including...
Onetime Actress Emmy Sonnemann presented Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, No. 2 Nazi, with his first child, a daughter. In his Berlin news-organ, Der An griff, the No. 3 Nazi, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, father of five, devoted the entire front page of an elaborate extra edition to the occasion, peppered it with such headlines as Goring as a Father of a Family-A Day With Uncle Hermann. Because Field Marshal Goring's first-born is to be named Edda-same as Benito Mussolini's favorite daughter, the wife of Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano...
Another Austria? Nevertheless, there were alarming indications last week that Chancellor Hitler might decide to duplicate his Austrian coup. Der Angriff reminiscently declared that the Czech government of President Eduard Benes was "no longer master of the situation." This almost directly paralleled the technique that prefaced the occupation of Austria, when Austrian Nazi Chief Seyss-Inquart "invited" the German army to take control because Austria "was no longer master" of its own situation...
...music by Jewish composers has been rigidly enforced, racial borderline cases, Jew-"Aryan" collaborations, and other knotty problems have kept Nazi theoreticians in a perpetual dither. "Aryan" Composer Richard Strauss's operas have escaped the ban, though several of his most successful (Die Schweigsame Frau, Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra) have librettos by Jews. Also unbanned, and of Jewish authorship, are librettos of "Aryan" Composer Franz Lehar's operettas (The Merry Widow, et al.). Carmen, a perennial favorite in German opera houses, was written by French Composer Georges Bizet, who is generally credited with some Jewish blood. Kulturkammer authorities...