Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truth in Ben Franklin's dictum: "We can never have too many People (nor too much Money)." In the 15 years since V-E day, West Germany has absorbed 12.8 million refugees from East Germany and Eastern Europe; yet thanks to soaring living standards and industrial production. West German employers today are so desperate for labor that they are reduced to stealing it from each other. In the U.S., most economists cite the baby boom as one of their reasons for business optimism: in the short run, the 4,400,000 infants to be born during 1960 mean...
...industrial city of Kassel, Germany, is off the tourist track, and its art museum has only 60,000 visitors a year (as against 200,000 each for Munich and Cologne). Yet Kassel's Gemaeldegalerie can boast of one of the world's most brilliant collections of early German and Flemish paintings, topped by no fewer than 19 Rembrandts. Kassel can thank the art-loving Landgrave Wilhelm VIII, who ruled Hesse from 1751 to 1760. As a youth, Wilhelm did military service in the Low Countries, fell in love with Flemish art, and got in the habit of collecting...
Tubes for Speed. An unassuming man in most other ways, Kricke has pushed to the forefront of modern German sculpture. At 37, he gets up to $25,000 each for his constructions, but still lives the life of a poor art student. Kricke occupies a spectacularly shabby studio in a kind of artists' barracks in Duesseldorf, sleeping on the balcony with his wife. Their daughter, 11, has a small room to herself down the hall. The studio proper is littered with contorted steel tubes, cutting, bending and welding equipment, and an acetylene torch with its hoses and tanks...
...unpopular with his academic teachers. He moved to Duesseldorf because ''it has a certain dynamism, factories going up every day," and began the independent career that led him to decisively abstract sculpture. Kricke's steel constructions have since made him an international figure, with works in German, French, Belgian, English and American museums. Four of his pieces stole the show at an exhibition of European sculptors at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery last week...
...German usage, H stands for B natural and B for B flat...