Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Wall to Wall. Though the scene was as American as deep-freeze apple pie, the setting was not. The tightly knit settlement of 15,000 U.S. citizens-mainly Air Force dependents with a sprinkling of Army folk-stands on a wooded hilltop above the baroque German city of Wiesbaden (pop. 250,000) at a bend of the Rhine River. In this slumless paradise, each officer's or noncom's family is assigned a completely furnished, one-to five-bedroom apartment in buildings erected for them by the West German government. Some 600 bachelor officers and civilians are housed...
...separation of families already overseas-only their replacements. But Air Force and Army brass, defending their way of life, hurried to point out that an oasis like Wiesbaden is an inspiration to men stuck with unattractive assignments at a Turkish radar site or a missile battery on a remote German mountain-they feel a three-day pass to glorious Wiesbaden makes it all worthwhile...
...maze, NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad last week outlined a proposal he has been urging for over a year: the creation of a nuclear weapons stockpile to be placed under NATO control and left there so long as the alliance endures. Such a step would presumably stave off any German demand for independent nuclear strength, would also quiet the longstanding fear of NATO's European members that in the event of a Soviet attack on Europe the U.S. might hesitate to use its deterrent in the hope of avoiding Russian retaliation against...
...bold strokes a movement, catching the passing moment." To him, in 1900, the paintings in museums were "anemic, bloodless, lifeless studio daubs," while on the streets of Dresden, "life-noisy, colorful, pulsating," cried to be painted. Kirchner was not alone in his ambition, but of all the German expressionists who sprang up before World War I, few are enjoying quite such a vogue as Kirchner today...
Pounding on Nerves. Along with his fellow expressionists, he was trying not so much to paint reality as to convey the sensation that reality inspired in him. While the contemporary French impressionists were often methodically scientific, the German expressionists were both romantic and subjective. Every stroke of the brush was meant to intensify emotion, as if nature were pounding upon raw nerves. Kirchner used quick, jagged strokes that gave his paintings a staccato rhythm. His long and pointed figures had a certain elegance, but they were also painfully intense. As for color, Kirchner sometimes seemed wholly arbitrary: a face could...