Word: otto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetic canvasses express less than they should, that their statement of color is raw, that their organization is dubious. The same equanimity is lacking. Only the idiom is changed. It is no surprise that Schlemmer's canvas lacks the aristocracy of truly resolved expression. One can even understand how Otto Muller's canvas of the gal who lost her Maiden-form, can get by, utterly lacking, as it is, in substance and the very minimum diginity a work of art ought to possess...
...Amsterdam factory to escape the Nazi pogrom. For two years the eight fugitives, supplied with meager amounts of food by friends, crouched in the same wretched refuge until the Nazis found them - only nine months before the liberation of Holland. Of the eight, only Anne's father, Otto Frank, escaped death in concentration camps, and it was he who released Anne's meticulous diary record of their two desperate years...
...your account [March 2] of the home school provided for Tommy Kral by his parents Otto and Mary, it occurs to me that their determination to give adequate training to children who meet no real challenge in our public school systems could well be rewarded with something better than court action. Let's have a movement to change our educational laws so that children educated at home would be required to pass examinations provided by the public school system. This would eliminate the undesirable leveling of above average children and relieve public school overcrowding...
Divorced. Otto Preminger, 52, Vienna-born Hollywood producer-director (Saint Joan, The Moon Is Blue): by Mary Gardner Preminger, 40, his second wife, who punctuated a crossfire of adultery charges with the information that Preminger's temper is so hot that he sometimes gets down on all fours and beats his head on the floor; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...
Tommy's only trouble is that he does not go to school. His parents, Otto Kral, farmer-mathematician, and his wife Mary belong to the Council for Basic Education, whose members argue, often in luxuriantly polemical terms, that much of U.S. education is rotten with soft courses and "life adjustment" theories. After Tommy's first-grade year at the Lakeland-Afton public elementary school-where he got instruction in such matters as "language arts and social studies, whatever that means," Mary Krai recalls with scorn-his parents refused to send him back. Instead, they set up a stiff...