Word: schwarz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sought to prod Germans out of their complacency about the nation's Nazi past and materialistic present. Still, Grass downgrades his role as a social or political critic. "The idea that writers are the conscience of the nation is pure nonsense," he says. Others disagree. Professor Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz of Quebec's Laval University, who has written a literary critique of Grass, calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support of Kaiser Friedrich II's struggle to become Holy Roman Emperor...
...Office of Education of the Federal Government for $1.5 million, and additional funds in excess of $500,000 have already been secured. This effort, which is only now beginning to move forcefully ahead, is being led by a former member of this Board, Mr. F. A. O. Schwarz. But when the full $5 million for this important building has been found, the School will still have long-range needs for endowment totalling $15 million...
Slow-Motion Passes. For himself, Capote had selected a 39? domino mask from F.A.O. Schwarz; it was bested for economy by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 82-year-old daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. She had shopped around and got a similar mask for 4? less. But few of the other ladies tried to pare expenses; some spent $600 and more for their extravaganzas. Rose Kennedy picked out several masks in case she changed her mind, finally settled on an elaborate domino with towering egret plumes. Mrs. Henry Ford II came wearing a white organdy butterfly...
...collection, including cologne "designed for the individualist," and a nightcap facial massage "to relieve a look of worry and fatigue." Mary Lindsay, wife of New York's mayor, confides: "There is nothing that has wheels or that flies that John Jr. hasn't marked in the F.A.O. Schwarz Christmas catalogue...
...Pare, 37, won the $3,225 grand international prize for his motorized op-skip-and-jump works, which bobble and bounce ping-pong balls behind eye-boggling Plexiglas screens. A nonplused, partisan pop dealer could only remark that Le Fare's art reminded him of "F.A.O. Schwarz on the 23rd of December." Le Pare was just as much amazed when he heard of his win, while lying on the beach in Venice. A founder of Paris' Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel, he does not even call his works paintings, prefers the term "researches...