Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roomful of random art, in the abstract expressionist mode of the 1950s, when the wall-filling action canvases of Jackson Pollock were already being referred to as "environmental painting." Kaprow was also reviving and extending the then quiescent Dadaist tradition. One of his inspirations: the wondrous Merzbau assembled by German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters between 1924 and 1933. It consisted of rooms full of wood and plaster along with oddments culled from junk heaps, including a Sex-Murder Cave, which housed a red-stained bro ken plaster cast of a female nude...
...18th century. The Methodist movement was founded in England by John Wesley, a highway preacher who challenged the antireligious skepticism of the Enlightenment by stressing austere living and personal salvation. The precursors of the Evangelical United Brethren sprang from a similar revivalist movement in Germany, and were popularly called "German Methodists." Transplanted to colonial America by early European immigrants, the two movements remained on friendly terms, their preachers often collaborating in frontier revival meetings. Merger had been proposed twice before but had been defeated by language and cultural differences...
...most glamorous households in the U.S. came Annemarie's way: cooking for Jacqueline Kennedy. Although it meant cutting her salary in half (and signing an agreement never to write about Jackie), Annemarie did not hesitate. A girl for all seasonings, she could turn out French, German and Italian dishes, and once in a while Chinese. Best of all, she got John Jr. and Caroline to devour their spinach by decorating it with little egg-white faces. Last Christmas, Mrs. Kennedy's Christmas card to her read: "You make such a happy house when you let the children help...
When West Germany's economy has a setback, most of Western Europe suffers because of the loss of German trade. Thus news that West Germany's economy is pulling out of its 18-month slump has sent ripples of optimism all over the Continent. The Common Market, which saw its members plummet to a record-low average growth of 2.5% in 1967, now predicts that 1968 will be a 5% year. And the 20-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which only last month suggested that its West European members might make 4.5%, is now happily reconsidering...
...will be at least a year before Britain can take part in the West German-led resurgence. Meanwhile, Britain-like its neighbors across the Channel-will be watching the U.S. to see how it acts to balance its payments and bolster its economy (see THE NATION). For any cutbacks in foreign investment by U.S. firms, or a more aggressive export policy, would be felt immediately everywhere in Europe...