Word: der
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems almost as remote as William Morris' workshop or Verrocchio's studio. It has become part of the "golden legend" of modernism. Except for Josef Albers and Marcel Breuer, the chief Bauhaus teachers of art, design and architecture are dead: Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe. Even the ideal that hovered above Bauhaus practice -that social conduct could be purified and made better by all-embracing design systems-now seems to have been a heroic illusion, an ignis fatuus of avant-garde thought: no one really becomes less wicked or more rational by living...
...same agencies which bribed Chilean unions to oppose Allende. Buu's group in turn controls the "Peasant-Labor Party," which ironically lacks either peasants or laborers in the party hierarchy. Buu knows George Meany personally and after an expose this summer in the German weekly Der Spiegel, may be too vulnerable to propel himself into power...
...Guevara, of exporting Communist revolution throughout Latin America. Cuban arms and Cuban-trained guerrillas turned up in the 1960s in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Bolivia. But after 1967, when Guevara was killed in Bolivia, Castro muted his once proclaimed role as the "Líder de las Americas. " Today few hemisphere leaders worry that the Cuban dictator will try to interfere in their internal affairs...
...exurbia outside Paris, where a saucy mini-gratte-ciel apartment building full of affluent city commuters not only scrapes the sky but rubs nearby villagers and the demoralized peasantry the wrong way. Henri Castang, Freeling's new sleuth, is a low-key public servant who, like Van der Valk, cites Proust and Dickens without sounding pretentious...
...threaten to run off into novels all their own. Still, most Freeling fans may wonder if much is gained by introducing the new hero. A Dressing of Diamond is likely to send them figuratively off to Strasbourg to stone the author's house and shout, "Bring back Van der Valk!" The judgment may be a scrap premature. Freeling is not quite the chameleon poet of crime he thought he was, but he remains a writer worth waiting...