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...celebration of the Olympics came to an abrupt halt shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday when the first terrorist attack since the 1972 games struck at the heart of the games. Two people died and more than 100 were injured when a bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park. As in Munich, when the Olympics continued even after terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, officials in Atlanta said they would not halt the games. "The games will go on," said Francois Carrard, director general of the International Olympic Committee. And so they did, beginning with a moment of silence...
Jamison has danced with American Ballet Theatre, Harkness Ballet, the Vienna, Munich and Hamburg state opera ballets and Alvin Ailey. Jamison will receive a Doctorate of Arts today...
Joining Walter Gropius' Bauhaus movement initiated a more theoretical phase in Feininger's work and secured his place amongst the greatest artists of the 20th century, though many of his colleagues have over-shadowed him. In 1924 when Kandinsky formed Der Blaue Vier, a reference to his earlier Munich group Der Blaue Reiter, Feininger went with him along with Paul Klee and Alexei von Jawlensky (whose works are also currently on display at the Busch-Reisinger). Teaching and producing with the group brought Feininger from there to the new Dessau Bauhaus and to Berlin where Klee and Kandinsky, in particular...
...Olympic Games in Munich, athletes competed beneath the unfurled flags of Nazi Germany--flags symbolizing a regime that spawned worldwide evil and terror. In Atlanta in the summer of 1996, barring significant political developments, athletes will again have to collect their Olympic medals under a flag which represents the vilest capacities of man--the Confederate flag, an integral part of the Georgia state flag. Indeed, both flags stand for a holocaust--one of Jews slaughtered in ovens, the other of Africans who perished during the Middle Passage...
...issue at stake here is larger than whether the good people of Munich can prevent others half a world away from looking at pictures of sexually misused hamsters. These apparently trivial struggles may in fact be the opening fissures of a historical discontinuity...