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...moral seriousness that Russians traditionally assigned to music or the novel. By art, he hoped, one is set free. The only art that could provide a model for life was the sublime. In that sense, Rothko was the last romantic painter, the heir to Turner or Caspar David Friedrich...
Screenplay by Friedrich Gorenstein and Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky...
...Barbara Friedrich, Sally Hultstrand...
...foreword to Simon's book, Economist Friedrich A. Hayek says he cannot understand how a man of such outspoken views could have held a high Government post. Simon indeed prides himself on speaking out with all the exuberance of an Alger hero, and although it was always rumored that he was on the brink of being fired, he managed to survive. As Richard Nixon's energy czar, he hoped, in vain, to preside over the liquidation of his own empire. He writes, "There is nothing like becoming an economic planner oneself to learn what is desperately, stupidly wrong...
...Friedrich Karl Flick sold most of his 40% holdings in Daimler because he figured that the oil crisis darkened the future for cars. Until the present moment, he has been able to reinvest only $300 million, leaving $700 million to go. He bought 12% of the shares of the U.S.'s W.R. Grace Co. (petrochemicals, real estate, restaurants) for $130 million, last month acquired control of West Germany's second largest insurance company for $100 million, and added $70 million to the capital of his conglomerate...