Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author of The Territorial Imperative, was a great city "even when the food was terrible, and you couldn't get a hot bath." Stockholm, Geneva and Johannesburg, by contrast, are three of the most comfortable cities in the world, but not one of them has even a shadowy claim to greatness...
...doubtful that any one nation can claim more than one great city at any given time-great, after all, is a word that implies uniqueness. It is doubtful, too, that the world itself can contain more than half a dozen great cities at once. Indeed, a great city cannot exist in an unimportant country, which is why Urban Planner John Friedmann of U.C.L.A. prefers to call great cities "imperial cities." London and Paris are still great cities, but they lost some of their luster when world politics shifted to Washington, Moscow and Peking-all of which lack at least...
...Bulgarian whose art consists of wrapping things-big things. He has previously wrapped the Kunsthalle in Bern, a fountain in Spoleto and the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. For Christmas, he would like to wrap all the trees on the Champs Elysées, Paris permitting. Australia, however, can claim the distinction of having the first natural landscape to be wrapped...
...have an opportunity to see all his works in one place. The place was Hamburg's Kunsthalle, and the occasion the celebration of its 100th anniversary. The result was the realization that Meister Francke, an altar painter who worked in Hamburg around the year 1420, has far better claim than his later compatriots, Dürer, Cranach or Grünewald, to the title of Germany's first great artist...
...demanded that all helpers be promoted to the higher-paid journeyman category. They claim that helpers and journeymen do the same work and, therefore, should earn the same wage...