Word: ostend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expert on the problem, therefore seemed a likely choice to revive the battered coalition. He still hopes to win support for language reform. The issue is far from settled. Shortly before the new Premier took office, 80 Flemings stalked out of a church in the Flemish seaside resort of Ostend when the priest began the Mass in French for vacationing Walloons...
...bravura of needlepoint. It helps to be a recluse to master etching. One who was, and did, is James Sydney Ensor, Belgium's premier fantasist of the 20th century, who spent only three of his 89 years of life away from the seaport town of Ostend...
Ensor sought omens of a different sort in the world he knew. He detested the mob for its human hebetude. Every year, Ostend had a carnival whose revelers, it seemed to him, lost their sense of identity behind their garish masks. Without straying far from his family's souvenir shop, Ensor detailed the seven deadly sins in modern dress, and added a few of his own observation. He often showed Christ not as an object of adoration but as an unmasked redeemer swamped in a sea of masquerade...
...week, creating a formal language barrier across the land. Dutch will be the official tongue in the Flemish north, French in the Walloon-dominated south, with pockets of both peoples stranded on the wrong side. Months of demonstrations culminated last week when hundreds of Flemings clashed with Walloons at Ostend...
...Ghelderode often took his inspiration from the canvases of Flemish painters. His Magpie on the Gallows, for example, takes its name and theme from Pieter Brueghel's painting, in which sturdy peasants dance defiantly in the shadow of the gallows. In a series of radio interviews recorded in Ostend twelve years ago, known to fans as "The Ostend Interviews," Ghelderode offered probably the only deep glimpse into his habits and personality that he permitted during his lifetime...