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Jaspers sees Germany today as morally adrift in prosperity, pretty much as it was morally adrift in poverty in 1931, when he warned of the approaching collapse of the Weimar Republic in Man in the Modern Age. Does he now foresee a neo-Nazi takeover? Hardly. But he does assert that the Germans are still making the same kind of peculiarly German mistake: looking for a system so perfect that the individual citizen will be spared the effort of trying to be good...
Particularly Furious. The Socialists have been out of power in Germany for 36 years, ever since they served briefly in the Weimar Republic coalition. Now that they have the responsibility of government, things look different than when they merely opposed. The unions accuse them of acting like reactionaries-of dismantling the German welfare system because they voted to impose small prescription and health-insurance fees on pensioners, of sabotaging the coal-mining Ruhr because they refuse to block U.S. oil imports, and of giving aid and comfort to capitalists because Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller has pumped government spending into...
...built a kind of visual Wurlitzer, which he called the Clavilux. By moving sliding keys, he activated a battery of projectors behind a translucent screen. He became so skillful that he was able to create what he called lumia compositions-slowly evolving, shifting, glowing abstract patterns. At the Weimar Bauhaus, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy between 1922 and 1930 devised a polished metal and clear plastic Light Display Machine. But such items remained isolated curios ities. It took the 1950s and 1960s to attract a whole spectrum of artists to the medium...
...imperialism. Turn-of-the-century Christian liberals pictured him as a primitive reductionist who tried to return the church to its apostolic simplicity. Since Luther's f ears,, foibles and physical ailments are amply documented-notably in his own writings, which fill some 100 volumes in the authoritative Weimar Edition-he has provided a wide target for psychoanalysts and playwrights. A successful case in point is John Osborne's Luther, in which the reformer came across as a manic-depressive lout, whose rebellion against the church was motivated by a father fixation and a bad case of constipation...
...return the paintings to Germany required a special act of Congress last September, but no proviso was made for Ernst, who now hopes to recoup something eventually from the Bonn government. But even when the paintings leave the National Gallery next month, they will still not be safely home. Weimar lies in East Germany, so Congress has handed Bonn the responsibility of ultimately returning them to the museum from which, almost half a century ago, they were taken...