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...that were the envy of American producers and art-house audiences. In Sweden, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom made sweeping dramas of man in tune with or enslaved by nature. Denmark's Carl Dreyer shot his heroically austere The Passion of Joan of Arc in France. The Germans boasted Ernst Lubitsch's puckish historical sagas and Fritz Lang's grand parables. Lang's Siegfried had a fire-breathing dragon, a contraption 50 ft. long operated by eight men; his gigantic, prophetic Metropolis nearly bankrupted its backers...
...question of national identity is still complicated because Feininger's German sojourn lasted a half century and his work appears distinctly German. His most influential pieces used the color pallette of postwar German Expressionism and his rigid, distorted figures anticipated Franz Marc, Ernst Nolde--and even Italian Futurism in some respects...
...opening reception of the Ernst Mayr Library of Comparative Zoology will be held in the library today, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Mayr said he would give a speech if asked...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) Library will be renamed today as the Ernst Mayr Library of Comparative Zoology...
...change honors renowned evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, 91, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, who has devoted much of his career to the study of the origins of biodiversity...