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Things firm up toward the '80s. The picture that changed Moskowitz's style was Swimmer, 1977, a canvas bearing the head and raised arm of a figure in the sea. This figure is quite an abstract form, and it is embedded, heraldically, in a dark field of Prussian blue. From now on Moskowitz's work would look for strong, immediately recognizable icons that were submerged into abstraction by their elaborate, nondescriptive surfaces. They combine frankness of silhouette with loss of detail, and the effect is mysterious and poignant...
...become. The cold war's first frosts were felt in the months after V-E day in 1945 over Soviet attempts to force the Allies out of Berlin and consolidate Soviet control over Germany. The Soviets were determined that the Germans would never rise again and that their obedient Prussian and Saxon servants would rule permanently in East Germany. As elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union could influence events only as long as it was willing to use its military power...
...unified Germany has been the single most destructive power in the world during the last century. The last time Germany unified, after the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, surging nationalism under Otto von Bismarck caused changes in the balance of power that eventually led to World War I. And we all know of the horrible forces German nationalism produced...
...blend of Prussian thoroughness and Marxist ideology, the German Democratic Republic for decades provided the highest standard of living in Eastern Europe. Now the production machine has grown old and uncompetitive, and economic growth is less than 1% a year. The Communist youth daily Junge Welt asked last week what must be done to keep its citizens from being "lured away by shop windows filled with bananas." But it is not simply economic hardship in the East that motivates those who flee to the West. The refugees who arrived in West Germany stressed that it was the all-intrusive influence...
...Hegel, history "ended," in this sense, with Napoleon's triumph over the Prussian forces at Jena in 1806. That battle, to Hegel, marked the vindication by arms of the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution. True, Napoleon was eventually defeated and authoritarian monarchy restored. But Fukuyama approvingly cites the argument of a little-known French-Russian philosopher, Alexandre Kojeve, that Hegel was essentially correct. The reason: it was at Jena that the "vanguard" of humanity implemented the French Revolution's goals...