Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...channel." In the upper house of Parliament, Lord Avon-the former Anthony Eden, who resigned as Britain's Foreign Minister in protest against Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement and in 1956 joined France and Israel in the Suez invasion-even raised the specter of Munich. "I do not feel myself back ten years ago-I feel myself very much in the 1930s at the present time," said Avon. "I should be willing to support whatever action the Government and the U.S., and I hope some other maritime powers, thought necessary to insure that freedom of navigation...
...visitor to West Germany might logically assume that cheery, beery Munich, with its renowned art galleries and swinging student quarter, or perhaps the hothouse glitter of West Berlin, might offer the most congenial milieu for artists. Hardly anyone would think of busy Düsseldorf, a conglomeration of shimmering steel-and-glass office buildings on the Rhine that epitomizes the commercial hubbub of the Wirtschaftswunder. Nonetheless, the lion's share of West Germany's most adventurous artists today find in Düsseldorf just the setting they need. Says Munich's grand old man of art, onetime...
...city's very impersonality acts as a magnet for today's less flamboyant, more businesslike variety of artist. Gerhard Richter observes that "in Munich, the artist is too easily corrupted by the pleasant life. In Düsseldorf, the intellectual air is clean." For artists like Joseph Beuys, this is just the atmosphere for fresh beginnings. "What all of us have been doing," he says, "is trying to return to the zero points, to seek new essentials, to engage in meditations to lead us to the rediscovery of what lies behind our thwarted existence...
This week, to celebrate its tenth birth day, TEE puts its plush new Rembrandt onto the daily run between Amsterdam and Munich. Passengers relax in form-hugging, foam-rubber seats while a blurred landscape speeds past the vast picture windows...