Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II. From Holland came Piet Mondrian, from Germany Hans Hofmann and George Grosz, from France Fernand Leger, Andre Masson, Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst, providing the new generation of U.S. artists with direct links to Cubism ana Surrealism...
...World War II. An art history major at Yale, he spent a summer working at the Met. Five years later, he abandoned his Ph.D. thesis to spearhead the Met's contemporary arts activities. His criterion for a work of art: "Memorability and a visceral physical reaction. For some people it's in the heart, for others in the throat. Sometimes you might even throw...
...thought the situation required. He cooperated with the expansionist policies of President Kennedy when the nation's economic problem was sluggish growth and persistent unemployment. In late 1965, however, he refused to accept Lyndon Johnson's line that the U.S. could escalate the Viet Nam war, keep taxes and interest rates down and still avoid inflation; the Federal Reserve tightened credit, to L.B.J.'s displeasure...
...War, said Lenin, "periodically restores the disturbed equilibrium" of a capitalist system. That comment, which is often echoed in the Communist world today, will not help his followers explain Wall Street's reaction to the Viet Nam Moratorium. A sea of demonstrators poured into Wall and adjoining streets, crowding them so tightly that people could hardly move. Hundreds of custom-tailored bankers and brokerage-house partners joined their clerks and college students in a peace march, braving the jeers of hard-hatted steamfitters who tried to stage a counterdemonstration. The peace marchers jammed into a memorial service at Trinity...
...peace would be bullish. They bought stock in close to record amounts and sent the market to its sharpest gains in months. Prices spurted early in the week on hopes that the Moratorium demonstrations would compel the Nixon Administration to take some action that might further scale down the war. Stocks paused at midweek as investors took profits, but climbed again on news of the Communist offer of direct talks between the U.S. and the Viet Cong. Prices tapered after the U.S. rejected the offer...