Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since then have not diminished the spirit of Kompromisslosigkeit -no compromise-that guides both Die Zeit and its foreign editor. To Bonn and most West Germans, East Germany is anathema. But the Grafin has persistently advocated closer contacts with the other side of the Wall. "The Iron Curtain does not protect us from Eastern infiltration," read a recent editorial, "but cuts the Eastern countries off from the infiltration of freedom." The Grafin has visited East Germany twice; once, when a group of East German writers were refused permission by West German police to pay a return visit to Hamburg...
Wild Beasts. Braque always remembered watching, when he was a youth, as a poster of Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril was slapped on a nearby wall. Before the paste could dry, Braque peeled off the poster and tacked it up in his bedroom. At the age of 18, he was apprenticed to a decorator in Paris, feasted on the impressionists then in vogue, and began painting in the style of the coloristic Fauves, the "wild beasts...
...violent throes of political unification came late to Italy: only a century ago, musketry crackled across the gentle countryside depicted in Renaissance landscapes, and pictures of red-shirted Risorgimento Leader Garibaldi hung beside Crucifixion scenes on many an Italian's wall. During this era of foment, a group of Tuscan artists banded together at the Cafe Michelangelo in Florence to protest the Florentine Academy's insistence upon slick studio painting that absented itself from what was going on. These artists became known as the macchiaioli, who painted with splashes, macchie, of color...
Mumbling Masks. In older operating rooms, Dr. Masur notes, the surgeon had to rely on an assistant, or the anesthesiologist or a nurse, to mumble bits of information to him through a muffling mask. "Now he just glances up to an illuminated display board mounted high on the wall that continually flashes the physiological data from the recording room. The data are also stored, and doctors can study them later to see what went on from beginning to end, and therefore give better care to the next patient...
...Most Wall Streeters doubt that stocks are now riding for another fall. With the gift of 20/20 hindsight, they see that the 1961 market involved too much speculative buying by people who went deeply in debt to grab up stocks with more futuristic "glamour" than current earnings. This year's market leaders are blue-chip companies with strong earnings to back up their stock prices. Dow-Jones stocks are selling at 18.8 times per-share earnings, v. 22.9 times earnings in late 1961. The easily panicked amateur buyers, who deal in small lots, account for only 15.8% of trading...