Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Zuttermeister was young, the ancient, traditional hula -- hula kahiko -- had nearly died out. Islanders with Hawaiian blood took little pride in their ancestry, and cellophane-skirt-and-ukulele imitation hulas were staged mostly for tourists. But her husband Carl, a German immigrant, was proud of Kau'i's Hawaiian blood and persuaded her to learn what her uncle had to teach...
...emergence of Berlin as a major center of the visual arts, after twelve years of Nazi darkness and a decade of limping postwar chaos, is not the only story of post- 1960s art, but it stays up there on the front page. Much against the odds of "internationalist" pieties, German artists in Berlin between 1950 and 1980 helped turn the geographical categories of art around, forcing the art world to lose not only its fixation on New York as late modernism's only imperial center but also its set belief that abstract art was the ultimate style of the 20th...
...second generation of artists in the mid- 1970s, such as Rainer Fetting and Helmut Middendorf. By the mid-1980s the Neue Wilde, or new fauves, had become such a market bandwagon, so copious a fount of self-important rhetoric, that the rediscovered anguish of the postwar German soul ran some risk of joining the death of Little Nell as one of those things one could not read about without laughing...
...more than business as usual last week at the German border crossing point of Herleshausen when the gold-colored Mercedes-Benz and the red Audi parked within walking distance of the checkpoint. The mission: the exchange of convicted spies by East and West Germany. The swap was thought to be an attempt to create goodwill before East German Leader Erich Honecker visits Bonn next month...
...West Germans won the return of Christa-Karin Schumann, 52, an East German physician sentenced in 1979 to 15 years. In return, the East Germans got Manfred Rotsch, 63, formerly a chief engineer at West Germany's largest aerospace company. Rotsch was convicted last year of slipping Moscow weapons secrets, including plans of the Tornado aircraft. East Germany also released a West German counterintelligence officer serving a life sentence for espionage, and Bonn handed over two Communist agents described as "small fish...