Word: gers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent his evenings at the Café Certá talking with Breton, Arp. De Chirico and Léger and making composite drawings that they called "exquisite corpses." This was actually an old parlor game. One artist would draw a head, fold the paper and pass it on to the next man, who would draw the body without seeing what had already been done. "We used to fabricate all sorts of monsters." says...
...contribute a drawing and a statement on his philosophy of art. The contributions soon arrived from seven: Georges Braque ("I search rather to put myself in unison with nature than to copy her"), Marc Chagall ("A painting is born into the world like a child"). Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. But it was not until the book was ready for the presses that Photographer Man got his contribution from Pablo Picasso. This week the book (Eight European Artists, Heinemann, Ltd., London) was out with a message for posterity from the world...
Americans and British backed the Ger mans, and in the end, under severe pressure, Paris gave way and allowed Bonn to go through with the amendment. Next day, President Theodor Heuss added his signature, and it was promulgated as the law of the land in West Germany...
...four Ministers were unable to reach agreement," the final Berlin communique said bluntly. Where there was division when the Ministers met-in Ger many, Austria, Europe-division still stayed when they parted. The conference broke up cleanly, and exactly on schedule. No unhappy cleanup party of subcommittee specialists was left behind to carry on. The hard fact was that in Europe at least, nothing was left to discuss. On Asia, the Big Four agreed to meet again, this time with Red China and the other nations who fought in the Korean war, on April 26 in Geneva...
...seedy, 57-year-old fascist had little new to offer his disciples. His old British Union of Fascism was masked under a new name, the European Union Movement. It had some new heroes: West Ger many's disenfranchised neo-Nazi Werner Naumann and U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy ("the only leader in America today showing strength, character and direction"), but the 800 screaming followers who gathered in the school auditorium to greet Mosley might have been waiting there ever since the late 1930s. There were the same blond bully boys, the same zoot-suited spivs, the same middle-aged women...