Word: adler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia) will come as news to Allied veterans who still think they liberated Europe in World War II by defeating the Germans. The real cause of Germany's defeat, it now appears, is that Hitler wasn't Hitler any more; he was really Janus the Great (Luther Adler), a professional impersonator bent on destroying the Reich by making all the wrong military decisions...
After graduating from the seminary, Finkelstein took a small congregation in The Bronx, where he stayed for twelve years. When he was midway in this work, the seminary's next president, Cyrus Adler, persuaded him to join the faculty "for a year or two." He stayed for 15 years, and when Adler died, 44-year-old Louis Finkelstein succeeded...
Television Opera (Tues. 11 p.m., NBC) brings back NBC's talented Peter Herman Adler & staff for eight once-a-month productions of opera in English. The opener: Leoncavallo's Pagliaci. In spite of the singing of Soprano Elaine Malbin (Nedda) and the acting of Tenor Joseph Mordino (Canio), Pagliaci nearly fell flat for want of action and poor lighting. Even so, Director Adler proved his point that television deserves opera. Next in the series: Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame; GianCarlo Menotti's untitled opera, specially commissioned...
...such serious musicians as Dr. Peter Herman Adler, the conductor who worked with him in The Great Caruso, the case of Mario Lanza is a peculiarly American tragedy. "Opera singers are like wild animals," says Dr. Adler. "They must be trained, kept in strict discipline. In Italy, there are a dozen opera houses for young singers to train where they can be in the right artistic atmosphere. Where in America can a young singer go but these two opera houses in New York (the Met and the N.Y. City Opera), to sing once or twice a week in minor roles...
...Mortimer Adler's at it again, trying to down [Darwinian] evolution, to make it possible for us once again to accept the idea that man is created in God's Own Image [TIME, June...