Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suddenly fizzled when the Government announced that the U.S. trade deficit had hit a record $17.6 billion in October, up 25% from September. The news threw the world's currency traders into a frenzy, and the dollar plummeted to its lowest levels against the Japanese yen and the West German mark since the 1940s. The turmoil could not help pushing urgent questions into the minds of every reader of the financial pages: What is going on with the U.S. economy, and what is going to happen in the new year...
...seems from Anselm Kiefer's retrospective, which has just opened at the Art Institute of Chicago, that at 42 this German artist is the best painter of his generation on either side of the Atlantic. Given most of the talent we have, this may not sound like much of a compliment. Certainly Kiefer's limitations are inescapable: his drawing lacks fluency and clarity and his color is monotonous, though the former seems to reinforce the grinding earnestness of his style and the latter contributes to its lugubrious intensity. What counts, is that he is one of the few visual artists...
...return to the original question: what have I learned? My senior tutor, if I knew his name, would probably wish for me to say that I learned a great deal about Mathematics, Systematics, German, Fine Arts, Sanskrit, Archaeology, Biology, and Pottery, during my three and a half years at fair Harvard. But somehow, what little book learning I have acquired here seem pale and gaunt compared to the true wisdom I have come to call my own. Stand ever firm, O Stacks of Widener; but not down thy revered stacks shall I tread...
...hundred and ten will go to East Germany for use in a new line of automobiles. With East Germany showing some independence recently, the Kremlin sees these missiles as a way of strengthening ties with the East Germans. Given that the missiles accelerate from 0-to-Mach 1 in an average of 30 seconds, the new line of East German cars should blow the BMW's off the Autoban and improve the self-image of socialists, whose last automotive offering was the Yugo...
...devastation of the Blitz. The glories of John Nash's Regency terraces, Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, John Soane's Bank of England and Wren's churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built" public housing that sprouted in craters left by German V-bombs. Squares and courtyards were bulldozed flat. Planners who felt that London was too dense and dark decided that new buildings should reach up high in search of light. They rose, in fact, to the 52-story, 600-ft. level of the NatWest Tower, dwarfing the 365-ft.-high...