Word: guernica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amritsar in India's Punjab, British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer marched 50 of his soldiers toward a menacing mob of Indians in 1919 and, without warning, they killed 379 people with rifle fire. The Germans bombed and machine-gunned to death 1,600 people of the tiny town of Guernica, Spain, in 1937, rounded up and shot 200,000 Jews at Babi Yar in 1941. And there was Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau...
...aborted calf out of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, by the bull of Guernica...
...traditionally granted by most Spanish governments, the Basques were allowed to collect their own taxes and run their own local governments according to the timeless, almost tribal, lights of their ancestors-who decided Basque affairs in a council that met under an oak tree in the ancient town of Guernica...
Meyer Schapiro will lecture on "Another Look at Guernica" today at 8:30 p.m. in the Carpenter Center Lecture Hall...
...cubist portraits could be seen in sequence. From the U.S. came 46 key paintings from private collections and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art's pivotal 1907 Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that heralded the beginning of cubism. Only outstanding omission: the Modern's 1937 Guernica, which the museum considered "too fragile to travel...