Word: sarajevo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radical group of "Expressionists" who sought, with staccato rhythms and garish colors, to "express" on their canvases tormented moods and fantasies rather than to portray fashionable, naturalistic everyday scenes. "Crazy Kokoschka," his critics called him. Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who was later to die at Sarajevo, grumbled that "this fellow's bones ought to be broken...
Dedijer's strength included a grace of personal relations. To me, the reporter, he recalled his days as a correspondent in London. With a history student he spoke of the assassination at Sarajevo, then switched to the problems of peasant revolution for the May 2nd crowd. He told jokes in Italian about the Bulgarians, and chatted in English (with occasional Russian) about the Partisan War. An Eastern European whose father was born the peasant serf of a Turkish bey, he smiled a little when slipping in words like "hip" and "camp." He felt at home...
After an auspicious start, however, Guns runs an erratic course in outlining the ancient rivalries that lead to the Archduke's assassination at Sarajevo, thence to the rape of Belgium, and the devastating battles of attrition launched at Verdun and the Marne. Vignettes at the Czarist court are fascinating, and one oddly heartwarming sequence (marred by a fake shot of a meter clocking up a fare) shows the famed 600 vintage Paris taxis rattling off to the front as troop transports...
This was the gaslight age, la belle epoque, an era doomed to end with the first shot fired at Sarajevo. The flamboyant demotic art of the poster captured this society in the first blush of its romance with technology and the full flush of its well-fed, self-confident romance with itself. Brimful of retrospection, a Paris exhibit covering the 1870-1914 flowering of poster art is making Frenchmen misty-eyed with nostalgia over the good, inexpensive, uncomplicated, sensuous old days...
Despite postwar losses of vast holdings in Communist Czechoslovakia, Franz Josef II is ranked among Europe's ten richest men. A grandnephew of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo ignited World War I, the alert, easygoing prince is also rated Liechtenstein's most popular monarch since Johannes the Good, who took the throne in 1858, reigned 71 years,* and spent an impressive $18 million of his personal fortune to build schools and roads in Liechtenstein. Though no one expected Franz Joseph to spend as much, loyal Liechtensteiners who crowded into the palace last week prayed lustily...