Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva, bear witness to the fact that a certain relaxation of tensions has taken place," said the official Tass statement. The Russians explained their new move as an attempt to "establish confidence among nations." Whether the Kremlin would keep its promise there was no means of knowing, since the Iron Curtain makes inspection impossible. Tass went on to say that the 640,000 would be sent back "to their places of residence" and be "ensured employment in industrial establishments and collective farms," i.e., they would be put to work where Russia needs able-bodied...
...more fiery spirit was the late Spanish-born Julio Gonzalez, son of a Barcelona goldsmith. A tutor to fellow Barcelones Pablo Picasso, Gonzalez hammered out of sheet iron figures in praise of the peasant girls of his native land (see cut). Among the first of the Americans was Mobile-Master Alexander Calder, who strung together cut-out metal forms to create a moving, pulsating world of abstract form slowly moving in space...
...techniques of welding and brazing are taught in high-school shop courses throughout the U.S.; the materials, iron and steel, can be found in any junkyard. The inspiration for many of the new space concepts is as easy to find: in the confused welter of the modern cityscape with its forest of TV aerials, bridges, air-raid-siren platforms, metal scaffolding and skyscraper girders. In the hands of U.S. sculptor-welders, this new handling of space has resulted in a myriad of styles from a long roster of native talents...
This cultural Iron Curtain has long piqued Frederick C. Schang Jr.. president of Columbia Artists Management Inc., who thought the Soviet stars would make a smash hit in the U.S. if they could only be coaxed away from home at the "psychological moment." In 1939 he dickered with Georgy N. Zarubin, Soviet Commissioner to the New York World's Fair, and signed up a team of seven musicians, including Oistrakh and Gilels. He even booked Carnegie Hall for six evenings. Then the U.S.S.R. signed its nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, and the scheme went up in smoke...
...points; it is the fact that he had so many weak ones. Kürenberg's book makes the going a bit sticky for people whose knowledge of modern European history is shaky, but it will bring many a surprise to readers who vaguely remember Wilhelm as the Iron Hohenzollern who had something to do with bayoneting Belgian babies. Most of all, it will shake the beliefs of those who are still under the impression that the Kaiser personally started World...