Word: angelical
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...Liselotte Bossert, self-proclaimed friends of the dead man, policemen came upon a tape that featured martial music and a speech by Adolf Hitler at a rally. The pieces of the puzzle were coming together, and they suggested that the body found at Embu did indeed belong to the "Angel of Death" and the world's most hunted war criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele...
...well- to-do Buenos Aires suburb of Olivos and practicing medicine with impunity, though without a license. On one occasion, it is said, a patient died while Mengele was performing an abortion on her, and he found himself in jail. Two hours later a friend posted bail, and the "Angel of Death" was free once again. In the late '50s, after Peron had been exiled and the West German government had issued a request for Mengele's extradition, the doctor moved again, this time to Paraguay...
...deny categorically that Mengele is in Paraguay," Paraguayan Under Secretary of the Interior Miguel Angel Bestrad said two months before the supreme court ruling. Stroessner himself told an interviewer last March, "I don't know where Mengele is. The Mengele question is a repeat question, like a long-playing record...
Berg wrote his concerto in 1935 after the death of Manon Gropius, the beloved daughter of his friend Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius. The girl died at 19 of polio and the composer dedicated the work "to the memory of an angel." Robbins' scenario begins quietly and a bit flatly as Farrell moves with increasing stiffness and bafflement between her lover (tenderly danced by Joseph Duell) and friends. Suddenly they move off and she is left with a gauntly beautiful angel of death (Adam Luders). Their pas de deux is the heart of the ballet. The moves...
Debussy: The Fall of the House of Usher; Andre Caplet: Conte Fantastique (for harp and strings); Florent Schmitt: Etude pour "Le Palais Hante." (Georges Pretre conducting the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Angel.) Thanks to the translations of Baudelaire and Mallarme, the works of Edgar Allan Poe became popular in France during the late 19th century. Inevitably, they cast their spell on the imaginations of the country's leading composers; Debussy, for example, long considered writing a pair of one-act operas based on Poe's fantasies. He made a start on The Fall of the House of Usher, preparing...