Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...childhood whose ambience was decayed status, country eccentricity and the violence of Irish civil war. When Francis was 17, his father caught him trying on his mother's underwear, and banished him from the house. With no special qualifications or ambition, Bacon drifted his way round Europe-to Berlin and afterward to Paris-and worked as an interior decorator in England in the '30s. Of these formative years, English Critic John Russell, in a new book on Bacon (New York Graphic Society; $16.50), remarks, "Berlin and Paris gave him the notion of a big city as an erotic...
...outside these parentheses on a terrain of amoral candor about the most extreme situations. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"-so William Blake, whose mask Bacon once painted. Bacon's career has been a pursuit of this truth, from the transvestite bars of 1920s Berlin to the green baize of Monte Carlo, where he still assuages his passion for gambling. He is the Genet of painting, most particularly in the lavishness with which he uses his own psyche as experimental material...
...Treasury, moves in to rebuild the Anglo-American alliance on the basis of his old friendship with Dwight Eisenhower. He also pilots the ship of state through the storms of crisis in Lebanon, an incipient trade war in Europe, a Gaullist coup in France. Soviet ultimatums about Berlin, and assorted parliamentary pothers in Britain...
Leonid Brezhnev may have failed in his efforts to gain election to higher office, but in East Berlin, a far less likely candidate succeeded grandly. By a unanimous 500-to-0 vote, the East German Volkskammer (People's Chamber) last week re-elected old Walter Ulbricht, 78, to a fourth four-year term as Chairman of the East German Council of State...
More important, East Berlin might have used Ulbricht's re-election to flash a signal to Moscow. As events have shown, Ulbricht was fired at the insistence of the Russians, who wanted to ensure East German cooperation in negotiating a Berlin settlement. The East Germans are now engaged in almost nonstop negotiations with the West Germans. They may well reach agreement this week over new arrangements guaranteeing free transit to and from West Berlin and establishing more contact between the two parts of the divided city. Nonetheless, the East Germans may at the same time wish to indicate their...