Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year some 40 West German steamship companies got together to underwrite the costs of operating the veteran windjammers Passat and Pamir as training ships for future officers. So many youths crowded the offices to apply for berths that four out of five were turned away...
Four Winds is rather like something by Noel Coward as adapted by a German moralist and retranslated into English. In a certain sense, through its own gift of tediousness and soggy small talk, it mirrors an expensively empty world. But its truths are the dreariest truisms, its gamut a mere shuttling between the plushy and the preachy. It gives no new wrinkle to the lowlifes in highlife. Only the jangled sharpness with which English Actress Ann Todd plays the heroine has any resonance; all else is a blur of echoes and a drone of words...
...first half of the 20th century, German art was crushed and twisted by two wars and artistically ignorant totalitarianism. Some of Germany's artists succumbed to Hitler's demands, some lost their lives or their minds, many fled to the rest of Europe and the U.S. Today German art is rising out of its ruins, and bringing with it new appreciation of the fact that Germany played a major role in developing what is now the dominant artistic mood: expressionism...
...German resurgence is coming to a peak in the U.S. this fall. In Manhattan this week the Museum of Modern Art will open the largest German modern art show to be seen in the U.S. in more than 25 years-178 paintings, sculptures and prints. Next week Boston's Museum of Fine Arts will open its "European Masters of Our Time" exhibition, including 44 works by modern Germans. Three handsome and scholarly monographs on German 20th century art are now rolling off the presses.* Significantly, the artists most praised today are without exception the ones banned or exiled...
...first movement to make expressionism its own was formed by exuberant architectural students turned artists in Dresden in 1905 who called themselves Die Brücke (The Bridge) in the confident expectation that they would "attract all the revolutionary and surging elements." With the "audacious idea of renewing German art" the Bridge group-Ernst Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl and later Max Pechstein-set up their studio in an empty shoe store...