Word: essenes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...message in it; in Poland, an easier ethic and a powerful state need for propaganda prevail. Thus the common poster, which may proclaim no loftier message than the ordinary American billboard, may bear the signature of a top artist. On display last week in the West German city of Essen were 124 posters done between 1951 and 1959 in Poland. The show has traveled all over West Germany, convincing the Germans that in this art form Poland stands as high as any nation...
...artists in the Essen show span two generations, and their posters cover everything from Communist youth rallies to safety regulations to new movies...
...London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Essen admirers stomped and hollered for encores. In Hamburg she had to go back onstage in her street dress and Indian moccasins to sing two final songs. In Berlin the manager of the Sportpalast assured her that he had not heard so much audience noise since Hitler ranted there in 1938. He seemed to prefer Mahalia...
...Yellow Feather, the Indian heavy, finally has the heroine strapped to a conifer and the No. i Ranger comes singing to the rescue. Nonetheless, there are plenty of fine moments along the way: an ex-diva of Germanic origin sings of her native burg (In Izzenschnooken on the Lovely Essen-zook Zee). A soubrette who wishes she were an unvirtued spy sings her unashamed worship of Mata Hari...
...more irony than iron in his foundry, the Forge of Good Hope, and died at 39 of dropsy and despair. His son Alfred was later to find and filch the sought-for secret from British forgemasters while posing as a frivolous visiting baron, Herr Schropp. After he set the Essen smokestacks belching, Alfred devoted seven years to casting a cannon in steel instead of the traditional bronze; the weapon later pulverized the French in the six-month...