Word: josef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snapped. "There isn't any sense in our fooling around any longer." For the Daughters of the American Revolution, gathered in annual convention in Washington, he had a polite welcoming note and a couple of not-so-polite digs. During a White House ceremony for Polish Refugee Josef Zylka (last of the European refugees to come to the U.S. under the Displaced Persons Act), Truman observed that "some of the descendants of those early [U.S.] immigrants have come to the conclusion that they shouldn't help other people who are now in the same condition...
...Obesity as people grow older, Nutrition Expert Dr. Josef Brozek told a Manhattan meeting of biologists, is the most devastating and widespread nutritional disorder in the U.S. today. Tests on 103 men showed that the average fellow consists of about 14% fat at the age of 20, eats his way up to 25% fat by the time he reaches 60. Dr. Brozek's advice: lop 7% from the 3,000 calories consumed daily for every decade after...
...Bauhaus, Gropius gathered a brilliant group of teachers and students to apply his ideas. Marcel Breuer invented the first tubular steel chair. Bogler and Lindig designed pottery for mass production. Josef Albers turned broken bottles into stained-glass windows, and his wife Anni developed new techniques and textures for fabric weaving. Bayer and Moholy-Nagy experimented with typography and abstract photography, Oskar Schlemmer and Xanti Schawinsky produced abstract stage sets. Painters Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger stuck mainly to painting...
Besides his geometric abstractions which stress color, form, and shading, Josef Albers has done bright and glossy studies in sandblasted glass. To make his patterns, Albers put together sheets of laminated glass of different colors and blasted his designs from the top plates, allowing the underplates to show through. Albers also worked with plastic, and the engraving called "The Tight Rope" shows his particular talent at its best...
Behind the Iron Curtain, a Mimeographed bulletin published by Josef Josten, a Czech refugee editor. If, as suspected, Communists were the thieves, they had good cause to fear Editor Josten's tiny bulletin. In three years, his "Free Czech Information" service has proved uncannily accurate on what is happening, and about to happen, behind Russia's curtain...