Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principle, the West Germans believe in foreign aid-it rebuilt their economy after World War II. But they have been annoyingly frugal about giving out any, even though their coffers have been filling with gold at the rate of $1 billion a year while U.S. reserves are shrinking. Last week, under heavy pressure from the U.S. to help stanch the drain on U.S. gold, West Germany finally agreed to ante up. After a chat between Kennedy and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, the West Germans announced a long-range foreign aid program of about $1 billion a year...
...West German "aid" in the past has consisted mostly of short-term, high-interest credit to finance purchases of West German goods. The West Germans last November promised a $1 billion program of aid to underdeveloped countries for 1961, but never got around to spelling out exactly how it would be spent. Apart from an aid program, the U.S. proposed that the West Germans ease the pressure on the dollar by paying the cost of the U.S. troops stationed in Germany. The West Germans refused; instead they bundled together a makeshift $1 billion package that consisted chiefly of prepayment...
...Faust is best known, outside opera, in Marlowe's fitfully magnificent Dr. Faustus. But as Georg Brandes once noted, where Marlowe's Faust, loving power, craves omnipotence on earth, Goethe's, loving wisdom, seeks omniscience. Power inspires sharper drama than knowledge, particularly for those without the German to follow Faust's speculations and soliloquizings. Goethe's Mephistopheles, on the other hand, boasts some of the internationalism of Hell. Less fiend than cold-blooded mocker and cynic, he is full of wit and mischief, and Gustaf Gründgens, who plays him nimbly enough...
...grandiosities, keeps largely to a simple platform stage, at times with no more props than a bench and a tree, and often vivid expressionist lighting. The production suffers, however, from a total lack of style, from seeming solidly, even a little clumpingly, echt Deutsch. It may not seem too German for those who know German; for those who do not, Faust is more rewarding in Marlowe's play, or Berlioz' or Gounod's or even Boito's music. But, if not exactly something to see, as a great classic it may yet, perhaps, be something...
Thus Hamburg's Die Welt, in an atypically Teutonic blend of business judgment and sentiment, last week summed up the exit of the grand old gadgeteer of the West German auto industry. With his Borgward auto complex some $48 million in debt, 70-year-old Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward agreed to give up his positions as president, sole owner, chief engineer and designer of the firm he founded 33 years ago and built into the sixth-largest automaker in Germany. The Bremen city council will take over Borgward and its subsidiaries to try to save the 19,000 jobs...