Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words that could be hissed were "She paints." Petite (5 ft. 2½ in.), fluttery, auburn-haired Florence Nightingale Graham was only the daughter of an immigrant Ontario truck farmer, but she intended to be a lady. Borrowing 1) a name from two genteel Victorian books (Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Enoch Arden), 2) the technique of giving "scientific treatments" to customers by massaging on creams and lotions from a previous employer, Eleanor Adair, and 3) $6,000 from a cousin, she set up her first salon, for well-heeled society matrons, in a converted brownstone house...
...German expressionists, too, are supposed to be historical relics these days. Take Oskar Kokoschka, for example. In pre-World War I Prague, they gleefully translated his Czech name literally-"bad weed." Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination helped spark World War I, once growled, "That fellow's bones ought to be broken." He wrote plays that people called mad, but mainly he painted pictures that few people liked. Hitler unhesitatingly banned him as "degenerate." Kokoschka cheerfully outlived them all; today, at 80, he is more generative than ever...
...life," he says. This year, for instance, he did a view of the Soviet zone from a skyscraper near the Berlin Wall. "Before me I saw a lunar landscape," he recalls. "I wanted to record this part of a country sentenced to death." As a commission for the German government for $50,000 (which he gave to children's charity), he painted his 1966 portrait of Konrad Adenauer as a figure illusory and shrinking in form, as if wasting away. "He's very cunning, stately, vital," says Kokoschka of the 90-year-old former German chief of state...
...international enterprises undertaken by Western Europe after World War II, formed the nucleus of the Common Market, and ever since has been considered a model for economic development. The Community promoted steel and coal production, cut tariffs, achieved fair pricing, and took much of the malice out of Franco-German industrial rivalry. Now, however, just when it should be congratulating itself on its long-term success, the Community seems to be falling into disarray...
Faced with the problem of dealing with overproduction rather than with underproduction, the Coal-Steel Community's High Authority in July proposed as a first step what amounted to a coal subsidy to be paid to Germany by the other five members. This would have enabled German coal to compete with U.S. coal, which sells for $4 a ton less in Europe. But the French vetoed the plan on the grounds that they did not want to subsidize the German coal industry and that they did not want to give the High Authority any more "supranational" power. Then...