Word: graustarkian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...startling to see shocking-pink monuments, paintings of mountainous breasts and blinking assemblages inside and outside the ornate, Graustarkian palaces. Once again it was time for the staid city of Kassel-in West Germany to come to hypermodern life. It happens every four years. The occasion is Documenta, an international exhibit that on three previous occasions established a reputation as the most comprehensive survey of new art anywhere...
Outburst of Pique. Groppi and his Youth Council "commandos," most of them husky, high-spirited Negro lads, failed during the August riots to march on the Graustarkian downtown city hall where Democratic Mayor Henry Maier holds sway. They were checked by Maier's ironfisted curfew. Earlier this month, the Groppians paraded through the Polish-dominated South Side and were met by abuse, firecrackers, beer cans and rage. Last week, while Groppi lay ill with summer flu and exhaustion, 80 of his stalwarts descended on the mayor's office, chanting "Sock it to me, Black Power" and "Mayor Maier...
Housed in the Graustarkian palace ruins of the pomp-crazed nobles of Hesse, Dokumenta III features 1,500 intelligently selected paintings, sculptures and drawings from 250 artists who are either the acknowledged masters or the exploratory frontiersmen of modern art. The shaping hand behind it and the earlier Dokumentas belongs to Professor Arnold Bode, 60, an erudite man with Napoleonic looks and energy who rules Kassel with scrupulous esthetic integrity. A jury of 15 members (four non-Germans, including Peter Selz from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art) aided Bode in choosing the entries, but shunned awarding prizes. Qualitative...
...never easy to describe the human lives of princes and princesses, but it is particularly tough when one or both have sponsors. The Graustarkian principality of Monaco is, of course, dependent on sponsors of one kind or another, the most influential of whom are the French government and the tourists. There is not much anyone can do about Charles de Gaulle, but something can be done about tourists-as last week's hour-long color telecast, A Look at Monaco (CBS), set out to demonstrate...