Word: bern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...square where the life-size statue of General Josef Bern stands, honoring the Polish officer who fought for Hungary's freedom in 1848, 200,000 people crowded around a latter-day poet named Peter Veres, silent mover in the Hungarian Writers' Union. He stood at the foot of the statue and read out a manifesto demanding complete freedom of speech and press, a new Hungarian government, release of political prisoners, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. The national flag - minus the Red star and hammer crossed by an ear-of-wheat emblem - was draped around...
High Water-Wood, in the Hulton col lection, belongs to Klee's final works. It was painted in 1938, after Nazi interference had driven him back to Bern. Klee was dying of a rare disease which produced progressive drying of his body tis sues, and he knew it. Painted on newspaper with thick paint and broad strokes, High Water-Wood is one of the most private of Klee's works. Areas of green, yellow and blue are laid out with perfect harmony...
...staid Swiss capital of Bern last week, plainclothesmen roamed the hotels, and scores of policemen accompanied by equally alert police dogs stood guard over the picturesque old town hall. Inside the town hall, which had been temporarily transformed into a courtroom, still more police kept a sharp eye on a polyglot crowd composed of some 120 newsmen, dozens of Iron Curtain refugees, and "observers" from Communist Rumania, China and Yugoslavia...
...heart of all this furor were four fanatic young men, the band of anti-Communist Rumanians who in February 1955 electrified the world by seizing Red Rumania's Bern legation and holding it for 42 hours before they surrendered to a small army of Swiss police backed up by tanks (TIME, Feb. 28, 1955). Now, 16 months later, the four were on trial before Switzerland's Federal Tribunal, charged with offenses ranging from espionage to the killing of Rumanian Legation Chauffeur Aurel Setu...
Armstrong Circle Theater created some excitement with Five Who Shook the Mighty, a sympathetic rendering of last year's capture of the Red Rumanian legation in Bern. Switzerland, by a band of anti-Communist exiles. Although taking considerable dramatic license with the facts (e.g., the Red charge d'affaires, played by Gregory Morton, is shown as a captive, but actually escaped), the play had far more realism and bite than the usual run of TV's anti-Communist dramas. Climax! failed with its version of Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 novel. Pale Horse, Pale Rider...