Word: darker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most Americans, the name Austria conjures up pleasant visions of ski weeks at Innsbruck, Vienna Sachertorte, Salzburg's music. Few people now recall two important events in that country that led up to World War II and betrayed a darker side of the Austrian character. One was the assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by local Nazis in 1934, part of a coup that failed. The other, which so dramatically succeeded, was the Anschluss of 1938, when the German army annexed Austria unopposed...
...even take humanity as some kind of moral index. who say that to be human is to be good and our problems all arise from not being human enough. I think I take a rather darker view. We must of necessity lose our humanity all the time...
...same time, one can see in the art of some women sensations and emotions which are very much part of the darker side of their experience: Nancy Grossman's leather-bound heads, for instance, are veritable nightmares of repression. "The work is me, my experience," says Grossman. "Everyone is a sadomasochist. The difference between me and other artists is that I admit it." So her masks, like Mary, 1971, are both armor and prison; the face and the implied personality behind it are abolished by the protective skin...
Britain began lighting up again last week. The country's striking coal miners (TIME, Feb. 28) overwhelmingly accepted the government's offer of a 21% pay hike and started returning to the pits. Despite the widespread public relief that the power crisis was over, darker days ahead for Prime Minister Edward Heath are predicted by Correspondent Honor Balfour, who has covered the British scene, including Parliament, for TIME since 1944. Her assessment...
Things turned darker in 1968 when his estranged son, Walter Jr., committed suicide. Almost two years later June Winchell, a former vaudeville dancer and his wife of 47 years, died of a heart attack. It remained for Winchell's daughter Walda, his sole survivor, to deliver that final, almost obligatory epitaph. After his burial last week, she said: "Technically he died of cancer, but actually it was a broken heart...