Word: franz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that saving gesture to party unity, the rest of the malcontents fell into line. Both Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier and Bavarian Ally Franz Josef Strauss avoided overt criticism of Erhard's aloof Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder, whom they detest. Schroder acknowledged their forbearance with the acid observation that "after all, we are a party that must take extra care of its china...
Building His Dream House. The price De Kooning commands is not negligible. Last month one of his works reached an alltime high auction price of $40,000. With his peers in the abstract expressionist movement either dead, like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, or caught in a price slump, De Kooning finds his reputation still ascending. Last year he became the second painter (after Andrew Wyeth) to receive the President's Medal of Freedom, and presently finds dealers on both coasts bidding and jockeying for the honor of giving him a one-man show...
Technique had bested the technicians. But watch out from now on. "For get the crashes," said Switzerland's two-time World Champion Franz Kapus. "When those Americans get themselves straightened out, they will definitely be the fastest in the world...
...history is already assured. Hard-edge and pop artists today acknowledge that they owe a clear debt to him. But he was "deeply moved by the response of the youngest generation," aged seven to twelve years, who have rated him No. 1 among such company as Cézanne, Franz Kline, Ben Shahn, Van Gogh and Robert Indiana. Some 300 children at U.C.L.A.'s University Elementary School preferred slides of Sheeler's work to those of any other artist. Their art teacher suggested last year that they write to the artist and tell him so. Their letters...
...Writing in the fortnightly church magazine Stimme (Voice), Niemöller charged that West Germany's militaristic policies are a danger to peace, and have earned his country a "general unpopularity" matching South Africa's. He cited Transport Minister Hans-Christoph See-bohm and former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss as "names behind which living humanity suspects inhumanity personified." West German democracy, he said, "only shares the name with what one used to understand by it," and the leading political parties are bent on creating a dictatorship that would make Hitler seem like "an orphan boy." For that...