Word: weimar
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...Left, who have denounced him as a prominent but typical bourgeois. But to Mann, this insult is a compliment, because he believes that it was precisely the bourgeois soil of the 18th and 19th Centuries that nourished the traditions he most admires. Goethe, a dutiful privy councillor of Saxe-Weimar as well as a world poet; Tolstoy, a schoolteaching aristocrat who tried to look like a simple peasant-these men were cradled by the "bourgeois ideal of individual human universality...
...political future. He started, true to form, by denouncing the Western nations' plans for a federalized Germany as a "plot to dismember" the country. But there were signs that the Russians might compromise. Molotov, suggesting that the Germans themselves fix the degree of federalization, proposed that the old Weimar Constitution be used as a basis for a new one. This drew immediate objections. Cried France's Bidault: "The ghost of the Weimar Republic will not find favor with the French people...
...Weimar, bulky Thuringian President Rudolf Paul spoke proudly of the way people had faced up to the reparations removals. Of the state's best enterprises, 310 were packed up and shipped to Russia. But by reassigning idle machines in the dismantled factories, by improvising with hairpins and toothpicks, So dismantled factories are in partial operation again. Although 14 of Saxony's 64 large beet-sugar mills were taken away, the state is producing as much sugar this year as last...
...Russians are courting pet Germans. Civil government offices for Germans are always more comfortable and pleasant than the Russian Military Government offices. Officers salute, click their heels, proffer cigarets and act toward the Germans with a grave courtesy that many an American officer has not yet learned. In Weimar the reporters went down to the National Theater and found a pale, 26-year-old youth sitting in Goethe's chair. Hans Viehweg became a Socialist after the war, but switched quickly to Communism. Thereafter, his rise was rapid. He served briefly as head of the local radio station, then...
...directors ever faced a tougher job. The roof of the great theater where the Weimar Republic was born was crumpled up in the auditorium. With Russian help he managed to get the damage repaired. He hired actors to start producing Nathan der Weise, As You Like It, Fidelio, Rigoletto, Tales of Hoffmann, and Illegal Ones, a play about the German underground...