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...integrate new and old architecture. In spirit, the old and the new have never been far apart. "We never saw the conflict that still seems to bother people in the West," says Nobaki Furuya, an architecture student at Waseda University. "We never saw Le Corbusier or Mies van der Rohe as revolutionaries. For us, they always represented...
Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht were among the most gifted writers of their time. Artist Max Ernst made surrealism accessible to a generation. The architects-in-exile of the Bauhaus, led by Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, changed the face of the American city. Middle European Physicists Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe and Edward Teller became the ambivalent stepfathers of the atomic...
DIED. James Van Der Zee, 96, celebrated black photographer who recorded the faces and events of New York City's Harlem for more than five decades, but achieved wider recognition only in 1969, after a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit, "Harlem on My Mind"; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Van Der Zee became a photographer in Harlem during World War I, shooting weddings, funerals and back-to-Africa parades as well as thousands of carefully composed portraits. Sadly, his "discovery" by the public and critics coincided with severe financial distress: evicted from his studio only weeks later...
...Dreyfus had to endure a ceremony in which his sword was broken and the insignia stripped from his uniform. One shocked witness was Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist covering the trial for a Vienna newspaper. Herzl embarked on a train of thought that would result in the writing of Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), a book that led to the founding of the modern Zionist movement and, ultimately, the state of Israel...
...sure, was more frustrated about that than Administration officials, who charge that Israel has played one delaying game after another in the talks. Israel's main demand is for arrangements that will guarantee security along its bor der with Lebanon. It has given up a request for a permanent 750-man Israeli presence in the country, but instead wants the 1,200-man militia of Major Saad Haddad, a renegade Lebanese army officer who has acted as an Israeli surrogate in southern Lebanon, to form a special unit in the Lebanese army assigned to the border area. Israel...