Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Common Market. This was as far as the protectionist-minded French intended to go. They would not grant to outsiders the Common Market provision to raise import quotas in each category to at least 3% of a nation's home production (which would allow a lot more German Volkswagens than British Hillman Minxes into France). To the British charge of discrimination, the French replied that naturally there should be special club privileges for those who paid their dues...
...Columbia with a now classic thesis, The Meaning of Anxiety. He followed it with the more popular Man's Search for Himself, published in 1953. Already applying existential principles in his practice, he then learned what European analysts were doing, began working on Existence. Meanwhile, the confluence of German and Swiss Daseinsanalyse with a more literally existential school developed in Spain, France and Vienna led to the omnibus Barcelona Congress...
ALTHOUGH he spent most of his life in Germany, Lyonel Feininger framed and shaped his art in America. The son of a German concert violinist, Feininger was born and brought up in Manhattan. Among his earliest memories was that of seeing stripe-suited prisoners marching in lock step on Blackwells (now Welfare Island. "This made a wretched impression on me." he recalled. "I took to drawing ghosts for a while, and this may have laid the foundation for my fantastic figures and caricatures." When he was 16, Feininger went to Europe to study music. Soon he switched...
...Enemy Below. One of the best movies ever made about naval warfare-the story of a duel between a U.S. destroyer escort (Robert Mitchum) and a German sub (Curt Jürgens) in the South Atlantic (TIME...
...Sixth Happiness (20th Century-Fox) has just about everything the mass public is said to want. It has Ingrid Bergman in a part so flagrantly sympathetic that Hollywood may not dare refuse her a third Oscar. It has Curt Jürgens, a German matinee idol who looks like John Wayne with a monocle scar, and it has the late Robert Donat, playing a sort of Chinese Mr. Chips in his most magniloquent style of maudlin. It has Cinema-Scope, DeLuxe color, 2,000 Chinese extras, a $5,000,000 budget, a $450,000 set, a running time...