Of course, that raises a question: What happens to all the gemutlichkeit if the region comes to be viewed as an established technology center?

The restaurant scene in Milwaukee tends mostly toward old-fashioned German gemutlichkeit.

Vienna's myth of Gemutlichkeit developed during the Arcadia of the early 19th century.

"Teddy Kollek wants Jerusalem to have gemutlichkeit," he said.

Their cultural heritage was threatened, they said; the essence of Bavarian Gemutlichkeit was under attack.

The dark Tyrolean style, coupled with gemutlichkeit (happy surroundings), may not be one that you would choose, but it establishes a mood of comfort.

I seemed to move, with all the luck of the undeserving, from gemutlichkeit to gemutlichkeit.

The mythic lovers, the clowns, the characters' misrecognitions and misplaced pieties, all found common ground in a sense of gemutlichkeit.

Seeking respite, his mind drifted to the tiny group in the hospital on New Year's Eve, to the warmth, the gemutlichkeit, the good feeling of sharing.

In contrast to these Art Deco rooms, the downstairs bar - "downstairs" being the 66th floor - is a wood-paneled affair that almost exudes gemutlichkeit.

The staff at the front desk affects a brisk efficiency that seems rather at odds with the bucolic setting and the otherwise prevalent Austrian Gemutlichkeit.

In Fort Atkinson, Wis., Gemutlichkeit.

It's the sort of town where you can still hear the sound of church bells - except, perhaps, on weekends during Oktoberfest, when the gemutlichkeit is in full swing.

(Both E-Werk, which is now closed, and Tresor-Globus subsequently became legal, as has Bauhutte Gemutlichkeit).

It was an era dominated by an undisciplined goulash of decorating styles, most of them relying less on grace than on double helpings of gemutlichkeit.

The sense of gemutlichkeit that Glockenspiel's decor evokes was absent in the service, which was the most careless, disorganized and slow that we have endured in years.

The city popularly known for its merry waltzes, Old-World gemutlichkeit and creamy pastries has also been a breeding ground for xenophobia, anti-Semitism, fascism and suicide.

The genuinely friendly greetings, good semolina rolls and waitresses who wander the dining room with huge water pitchers full of complimentary wine, also help create a mood of gemutlichkeit.

Here the exiled German proceeds to re-create his homeland, a mixture of lower-middle-class Gemutlichkeit and concentration camp discipline: rose gardens, bird sanctuaries, barbed wire and guard towers.

But its resilient charms, its public characters and its careworn gemutlichkeit also fed the comic imaginations of Paul Mazursky and, of course, Woody Allen.

Most of all, there was to be lots of good old Austrian GEMUTLICHKEIT.

Perhaps that was because Mr. Macal, in his further wisdom, refrained from imposing the easy grace and gemutlichkeit of Central Europe upon a high-powered orchestra performing in a glitzy-sounding hall.

Directly north was Ocean Grove, a summer retreat for Methodists who came from as far as Ohio to continue a Chautauqua practice started in the last century, mixing gospel with non-alcoholic gemutlichkeit.

Even today its younger music-buff patrons, looking eerily like the young folkies who made the Bitter End a music legend, turn to the club to see new and old performers in an atmosphere of Gemutlichkeit, not glitz.

Mr. Zinman, who sometimes seems drawn to the early-music esthetic, shunned it here, evidently striving for Viennese gemutlichkeit; the result sounded lumpish and sloppy despite the best efforts of the soloist, Emanuel Ax.