Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using the humble pea, an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Johann Mendel proved that living things pass their characteristics to later generations with mathematical regularity-almost as if the formula for each trait were conveyed in a separate little package. Last week, more than a century later, a team of young Harvard researchers reported that they had finally zeroed in on that Mendelian package. For the first time, science had isolated a single gene...
Sliding Images. Alfred Hrdlicka, an Austrian etcher whose fantasy even without drugs is pretty grotesque, began drawing a pig. "Don't you think that the eyes of a pig have a particularly devout look?" he asked. Suddenly Hrdlicka began drawing symmetrically with both hands at once, something he had never done before. "The simultaneous depiction with both hands may be new to Hrdlicka," says Hartmann. "But it is a well-known archetypal phenomenon that occurs in the art of schizophrenics...
...Austrian Painter Ernst Fuchs finds a middle ground. He thinks that his experiments with mescaline and other drugs have opened an "aperture" in his consciousness that now enables him to experience the same kinds of perception via pure meditation. But his fellow Austrian, Friedrich Hundertwasser, found his own experience with drugs as a youth in Paris frightening, and is adamant in rejecting them. "Look at Venice," he says. "This city appears like a vision contrived under drug influence. Yet had its builders been drug eaters, they would have never managed the energy to build it. They would have merely dreamed...
...identities. "To be schizophrenic is to be normal," Lind writes. The war followed him to Holland. Successive Nazi raids emptied Amsterdam's Jewish quarter, and Lind bought a new Aryan identity. His forged papers proved him to be Jan Overbeek, a 17-year-old Dutch laborer with an Austrian mother. At first, he recalls, "I spent most of my time studying my face in the mirror. I was Jan Overbeek, yes. But I didn't look like him. Not yet. My nose is straight, as straight as Hitler's, but there was something wrong with my eyes...
...Leap Forward-a single heroic burst that would overnight transform China into a modern nation. The targets were preposterous-e.g., a 33% annual increase in industrial production-and so were the demands made on the people. "In those days, the workers never went home," a factory manager told Austrian Journalist Hugo Portisch. "They stayed at their machines twelve, 14, 16 or 20 hours at a time. They had only one goal: to do all they could." Vast armies of blue-tunicked men and women toiled over irrigation projects, dams and thousands of backyard steel furnaces. In less than...