Word: sidewalkers
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...occasion, small, taciturn Köthe Kollwitz could slip into melodrama, but the occasion was rare. She drew the unemployed, the underfed, the suddenly bereaved; often she found inspiration in Berlin's city morgue-by sketching accident or murder victims. Whether in the morgue, on a slum sidewalk, or in her big, incredibly cluttered studio in the Prussian Academy of Arts, the rhythm of her crayon or pencil varied with the mood, now feverish with shock, now heavy with despair. She was capable of depicting love in a tender drawing of a mother and a child; but in another...
...Paris, a city old and rich in passing fancies, all it takes to plan a literary revolt is three disappointed writers and a sidewalk cafe. Most such uprisings are dissipated after the second apéritif, leaving nothing behind but the smile on the face of the waiter. Yet literary groups-if they persist long enough to draw serious attention-are occasionally to be reckoned with. Between about 1880 and 1895, for instance, the Symbolists, led by Mallarmé, reshaped the tone and temper of poetry, both English and French. In more recent times the Existentialists, though they produced...
...hats at all. Blacks' and whites' blood is kept separately in blood banks, although most doctors would not hesitate to use whatever blood is available in an emergency. Recently, however, a white ambulance driver in Johannesburg refused to pick up an African woman in labor on the sidewalk...
...growing stronger. Recently, a Jewish ex-policeman from Constantine stormed into the Marseille headquarters of the United Jewish Fund and demanded a decent suit of clothes so he could find work. "Do you know what I did today?" he roared in shame. "I sat down to lunch at a sidewalk cafe and left without paying." Many French Jews are less than happy to see their ranks swelled by the North African migration. Like most of world Judaism, the Jews of France are predominantly Ashkenazim, who follow the traditions that developed in the ghettos of Central Europe during the Middle Ages...
...When the government proposed boosting the tax on the awnings of sidewalk cafés from 60∧ a square yard to $25, café owners threatened to strike, coffee lovers raised a howl, and the Confederation of Commerce and Tourism dispatched an official delegation to the Finance Minister, a Christian Democrat. Result: the tax on shade was raised to only...