Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic sequel to West Germans' hopes of "belonging to the world" is that GERMANS GO HOME signs have sprouted in Europe, largely as a result of a few ruthless speculators who boost prices, and the selfish Germans who despoil the scenery with barbed wire and Verboten signs. In Ireland, where onetime SS Hero Otto Skorzeny now raises prizewinning lambs, the clergy has even tried to persuade farmers that it is "patriotic" not to sell their land. One indignant priest, who had twice been chased off a German-owned beach, complained from the pulpit: "Has the day really come when...
Paul Rosenberg & Co. is especially strong on 19th and early 20th century French art. It is wont to put on small retrospectives of such artists as Ingres and Sisley-a legitimate practice among dealers to boost the public interest in a particular artist as well as to provide a public service. Among living artists it represents are Kenneth Armitage, Karl Knaths and Graham Sutherland...
...status. She opened in 1946 with about 13 artists, including the even then venerable Hans Hofmann and Ad Reinhardt. She gave one-man shows to Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman. The public was either indifferent or hostile at first, but Betty Parsons got an unexpected boost her first year from a most unlikely source. "Anyone who wants to spend $100 or $150 for a picture by one of the younger American abstractionists may eventually own a masterpiece," cooed Elsa Maxwell in one of her columns. "Some dissenters scream, 'Hang the abstractionists!' I echo...
...stop them, their imperious execution was strictly the work of Prosecutor Wesgram. At week's end, Augstein was still behind bars, where he can legally be held without bail until his trial, which may be months away. But from his cell, Augstein blithely sent out orders to boost Der Spiegel's press run from the usual 500,000 to 850,000. The magazine also filed a complaint in Federal Constitutional Court against the government's highhandedness. In Bonn, Defense Minister Strauss kept mute...
Kennedy had originally intended to vote in the capital via absentee ballot, and the visit spurred speculation that the Democratic campaign needed a last minute boost from the White House. However, Ted Kennedy remains an overwhelming favorite to defeat George Cabot Lodge '50, the Republican candidate, and Independent H. Stuart Hughes in today's election...