Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swiss-born architect, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, came from a nation that gives social precedence to hotelkeepers and watchmakers. Annoyed by the lack of interest in avant-garde building there, he left Switzerland for good at the age of 30 in 1918, remarking that "the Swiss are clean, industrious, and to hell with them." At the time of his death in 1965, not one of his 75 major buildings could be found within the borders of his homeland...
...that seems destined to change. Nestled next to Communist-ruled Tibet, Bhutan has become a last frontier between China and India-and one of the most strategic chunks of geography on earth. To dispel some of the question marks, its progressive king, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, 39, recently invited three Swiss scholars, Geologist Augusto Gansser, his photographer daughter and Vienna-born Tibetologist Blanche-Christine Olschak, to observe and record the whole spectrum of Bhutan's culture. They have emerged with a fascinating photographic record including temples and monastic art treasures seen hitherto only by privileged lamas (see color opposite...
Snakes & Tiger Skins. Bhutanese art, the Swiss team found, is almost exclusively kept in the fortresslike dzongs, which serve as the administrative and religious centers for each district. Once inside the whitewashed stone walls capped by pagodalike roofs, they found the monastic quarters magnificently decorated with tapestries, sculpture and paintings. One of the most impressive was Paro Dzong, located on the old caravan route from Tibet to India. There, the Swiss group witnessed the traditional New Year's dance beneath the giant prayer banner, or thangka, which portrays Padmasambhava (Lotus-born), the Indian missionary-and central figure in Bhutan...
...delivery and pay up to $4,375 for the privilege of whizzing along no-speed-limit German autobahns at 100 m.p.h. and more. "BMW drivers drive like hell," says a company official. The drivers include Actor Peter Ustinov, Politicians Franz-Josef Strauss and Rainer Barzel, as well as the Swiss police. Above all, a widening circle of modern Germans on the go, professional men and young executives embrace it as the "Auto for Men," their symbol of class and style...
Dark Encounters. This book's title, The Time of Friendship, is of course ironic, masking profound misanthropy. Every tale he tells leads to a dark encounter, the collapse of friendship, the failure of understanding. In the title story, a Swiss schoolmistress in Algeria befriends a Moslem youth and tries her civilizing Christianity on him; he destroys her Christmas creche and tricks her into helping him join the F.L.N. In The Hours After Noon, a genteel French lecher, visiting an archaeological camp, gestures toward a Moroccan girl and ends up behind a boulder with a wire around his neck...