Word: br
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lillie did not fail him. Whether bursting into a Fragonard boudoir as Brünnhilde on a white horse, or playing a world-weary actress with only energy enough to scoop up gifts of jewelry with both hands, or wandering around a Siberian railway station disguised as a spy, Lillie had only to cock an eyebrow to cause a commotion, drop a muff to start a riot. The world's coolest and most custom-tailored crackpot, she was never, in her satire, more unerring, implacable, uproarious...
...granted. Meanwhile, an "interim report" by Curator MacLeish modestly measured progress to date. Statistics: each Fellow takes five or more courses; the Baltimore Sun's Reporter Frank Hopkins leads with ten, ranging from American Constitutional Government to Byzantine History. Favorite instructors include Felix Frankfurter and Dr. Heinrich Brüning, ex-Chancellor of Germany, and Granville Hicks...
Likewise enlightening are Instructor Goldwater's careful analyses of different kinds of Primitivism in the two great groups of pre-War experimenters in Germany: Die Brücke ("The Bridge") and Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider...
...flight tax was originally imposed during the economic crisis in 1931 by former Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning to shut off the flow of German capital abroad. Dr. Brüning, lecturer in government at Harvard, steers clear of Germany today and recently was reported visiting in London with his old friend, Winston Churchill, but his flight tax was taken over by Adolf Hitler in 1933 and made a good thing when Jews had to flee. In the two years before Hitler the tax brought in but 2,876,000 marks. With the start of the Nazi anti-Jewish...
...outcry when the distorted figures and "unnatural" color of their painting shocked Germany. The boldest of them was irascible, 25-year-old Ernst Kirchner, who had been inspired by primitive art he had seen at the Dresden Ethnological Museum. Before the group broke up in 1913, its name, Die Brücke (The Bridge), had become famous, it had been joined by some of Germany's most promising younger artists, and it was credited by art historians with having founded the movement known as German expressionism...