Word: hansa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with speeches by Clare Boothe Luce and Ambassador David K. Bruce, a Julliard String Quartet concert, a performance by Dancer Martha Graham, and seven American one-act plays. The show was pulling East Berliners over the border. And so was the new Congress Hall itself, along with the nearby Hansa district housing projects by such designers as Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, U.S. Architect Walter Gropius and Finland's Alvar Aalto (TIME, April 30, 1956). Using the new buildings as the site for a summer-long architectural fair, West Berliners had already attracted 725,000 visitors, including one group...
...Manhattan's Hansa Gallery on Central Park South, 22 of Stankiewicz's rusty iron weldings are on display this week in a one-man show. What they lack in elegance they often make up in wit. To the surprise of Manhattan critics, they also follow the rules of good sculpture. A case in point is Stankiewicz's The Warrior, which is armored with a hatmaker's discarded boiler, has a butane-bottle head and a boiler-plate shield. The Warrior's spindly steel rod legs, girded with buggy wheels, and its limp crest of dangling...
...Latvia is flat and forested, drained into the Baltic by the sprawling Western Dvina River, which brings wheat, dairy products and lumber down to the capital city of Riga (pop. 393,000). Over the centuries, the hardy Latvian peasants have been trampled underfoot by Viking raiders, Teutonic knights and Hansa merchantmen, Swedes, Poles, Germans and Great Russians. They have known only 22 years of national independence (from 1918 until 1940, when the Red army marched in), but the U.S. still technically recognizes their nonexistent sovereignty. Said President Roosevelt in 1941: "The U.S. will never recognize the annexation of Latvia...