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...people who have had their independence from Denmark for only twelve years, have no army of their own and dislike having foreign troops around. Iceland has no intention of closing Keflavik air base, feels simply that it can handle the NATO base with less U.S. help. Progressive Leader Hermann ("The Wrestler") Jonasson, who will probably head a coalition government, admits that Iceland is not ready to take it over now. Under the base agreement, it would be 18 months before U.S. troops would have to leave. His party does not object to the continued presence of U.S. technicians. Iceland, just...
...representative theme of our time . . . truly astounding." Part of the critical hubbub rose from the fact that Author Wilson, just turned 25, shows a staggeringly erudite grasp of the works and lives of Bernard Shaw, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William Blake, George Fox, H. G. Wells, Henri Barbusse, Hermann Hesse, Van Gogh, T. E. Lawrence, Nijinsky, Sartre, Camus, Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Gurdjieff and Sri Ramakrishna, not to mention many lesser figures. But what makes The Outsider a compelling intellectual thriller is that Author Wilson uses bits and pieces of these men and their literary progeny...
...Heart of Norway Spruce, by Theodores Stamos, 33, was acquired by the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Corcoran Director Hermann Williams calls it "a characteristic example of one of the strongest and most vital phases of contemporary expression currently in vogue. Stamos has consistently been one of the chief American exponents of this type of painting. Its range of communication is the emotional reaction on the part of the beholder to its suggestive and subtle arrangements of forms and colors. Thus its appeal is akin to the appeal of Oriental calligraphy...
Twelve Years, Twelve Million. The word Gestapo was the creation of an anonymous postoffice clerk who used it as an abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), Hermann Goring's name for the gang of Luger-toting bully boys who accompanied him into...
...others of a group called Die Brücke (the Bridge), brought a vivid emotional style into German painting; in Seebüll, Germany. A major influence on German art, Nolde painted vigorous, glowing canvases, was a member of the Nazi Party, sold his "decadent" painting to Art Lover Hermann Göring while Hitler looked the other...