Word: adolf
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Nonentities in Brown. In 1933, as the music critic of the Berlin Tageblatt, Einstein was obliged to attend the Wagner Festival at Bayreuth held in honor of Adolf Hitler. When he found his German colleagues had become nonentities in brown uniforms, he decided he "couldn't stand it any longer." He shipped his priceless collection of music-manuscript copies to England and then followed them. Now Einstein looks on his years as a music critic as a "nightmare" when he had time to be "only a bricklayer in musicology." By chasing him out of this rut and back...
Died. Dr. Adolf Meyer, 83, Swiss-born doctor who became one of the U.S.'s topflight psychiatric teachers and researchers, director for 31 years of Johns Hopkins's Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic; in Baltimore...
...determined enemy of Communism. At that critical moment in history he was alarmed at the presence in the U.S. Government of certain men whom he knew to be Reds. He had made his trip to Washington at the urging of a friend, to pass on a warning to Adolf A. Berle Jr., Assistant Secretary of State...
Another Dimension. During the days that followed, there were other discussions and other lectures skillfully guided by the Akademie's directors, bespectacled Adolf Wischmann and husky Johannes Doehring. For their technician "students" they steered the talk again & again to the relation between religion and technology. Deliberately inviting controversy, a Hamburg theology professor suggested that technology was a threat to mankind. Asked a young toolmaker: "How would the professor have come so speedily from Hamburg to address this Christian meeting if technicians hadn't developed cars and railroad trains?" "The professor is right," said a shop foreman. "We must...
...first time in the 42 years of his reign, Sweden's King Gustaf V, 91, was too ill to make his annual speech at the opening of Parliament. The speech was read by his son, bespectacled Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf...