Word: sarajevo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maddest celebrity in town was Oskar Kokoschka. His morbid plays dramatizing strife between the sexes set off bitter café debates; his portraits turning the light on the psychological "inner life" of his subjects outraged complacent burghers. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne (whose assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I), gave it as his opinion that "this fellow's bones ought to be broken in his body." After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant-garde painters. Hitler disagreed, called...
Lorenz and eight other Americans who Experimented in Sarajevo were the fifth group to visit the Communist country. The first Experimenters to Yugoslavia, in 1851, spent the summer working on a volunteer labor project...
Lorenz and the others arrived in Rotterdam by student ship on July 12, and traveled by train to Yugoslavia. For the next three and a half weeks, the Harvard student became a member of the Kamakovsky family in an apartment-housing project in Sarajevo. The five-year-old housing development, built by the government for factory workers, contained some 1800 apartments, an elementary school, and a shopping center...
Only at one point in the summer did Lorenz feel that the Experiment ideal was fully realized, and that was when their 42 Yugoslav friends bid the Americans goodbye at the Sarajevo station. After the usual exchange of addresses and emotional leave-taking, the train pulled out at 10:30 p.m. One fat Yugoslav mother ran the whole length of the station, yelling in the only English words she knew, "Come back, come back and see us someday...
...strip, and The Captain and the Kids, the strip he began after losing The Kids in 1913. Combined, they appear in 400 U.S. newspapers with a total circulation of some 60 million, and translated into nearly a dozen foreign languages (with the Teutonicisms strained out), have other fans from Sarajevo to San Salvador...