Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until he was nearly 40, he painted heavy landscapes that rarely showed a human being. His style was a Flemish variation of the German and Scandinavian expressionism. Then in 1936 he discovered the surrealist work of Italy's Giorgio de Chirico ("I was haunted by his poetry of silence and obsession") and Belgium's René Magritte. "They were the springboard that brought me into my own world," he says. Delvaux destroyed almost every painting he had ever done and began anew...
...Charleroi, the Walloon banners screamed "No to a Flemish dictatorship!" An orator in Flanders shouted, "We reject all further compromises!" The angry shouts over much of Belgium last week were the latest outbursts in the ancient hostility between the nation's 5,250,000 Flemings in the north who speak a language related to Dutch, and the 4,000,000 French-speaking Walloons in the south. Since Belgium seceded from The Netherlands 133 years ago, the numerically superior Flemings have always resented the traditional economic and social superiority of the Walloons. "We're the only country in Europe...
...World War II, Flanders has capitalized on a healthy dollop of U.S. aid to industrialize and acquire a patina of prosperity, while Wallonia, with its played-out coal mines, has been plagued by chronic unemployment. Last year, when violent riots broke out between the two factions, the Flemish majority in Parliament passed a law dividing Belgium into two separate unilingual sections along a line extending from the German border south of Aachen to the French frontier; to the north, Flemish would be the official language in schools, courts and administrative offices; to the south, only French would be recognized...
...more than a million volumes. He pioneered in the use of copperplate engraving, and got original type faces (still widely copied in modern printing) from the great French designers Garamond and Granjon. He printed the first pocket-sized books for travelers, produced the first modern atlas. He spoke French, Flemish, Spanish, German and Latin, and scholars from all over Europe came to Antwerp to get him to publish their works...
...Offer. Actually, political crises are few and far between in placid Luxembourg. Through tactful treatment of minorities, the government has avoided the fate of neighboring Belgium, where bitter antagonisms between Flemish and French-speaking citizens are a constant threat to stability. The Luxembourgeois, who speak French, German and a gobbledydeutsch called Mosel-fränkisch, do not even have an official language. They are 96.9% Catholic, but the government pays the salaries of the country's sole rabbi and its only Protestant minister. Even the country's few Communists profess loyalty to the royal family. Titular head...