Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artur Rubinstein is no kin to Russia's late Pianist Anton Rubinstein, one of the greatest of all time. Irritated at being continually asked whether they were related, he once bought a cap labeled "No." To Artur Rubinstein are dedicated the two toughest keyboard workouts of all time: 1) Stravinsky's "Sonata" from his ballet score Petrouchka; 2) Rudepoema, a ferocious tonal portrait of Rubinstein by Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, whom the pianist helped launch. Rubinstein's tremendous digital attack once wrecked a piano of the late Queen Victoria, at a performance for the present Duke...
Alice Marks in England); swift-leaping Anton Dolin (Patrick Healey-Kay, also English-born...
...Project pointed proudly last week at one of the few first-rate talents it has dug up: shy, 36-year-old, Moscow-born Muralist Anton Refregier, who won one of the biggest awards ever offered by the Government's Section of Fine Arts...
Last week two of the testiest physiologists in the U.S. talked back to the Army's Captain Harry Armstrong, long considered No. 1 U.S. authority on aviation medicine. At the University of Chicago's 50th anniversary celebration, famed Professors Anton Julius ("Ajax") Carlson and Andrew Conway Ivy marched in with a parachute jumper. In a learned paper on "The Physiology of a Free Flight Through the Air" they contradicted some of the scientific observations which Dr. Armstrong made when he jumped from a plane at 2,200 feet, six years...
...essentially masculine influence, stony, harsh, forcing Rilke to a contemplation of that reality he so dreaded. Whenever he left Paris, he became the pet lamb of one great lady or another, his work sagged into mediocre translations and brilliant, sanctimonious letters. Not to a patron, but to his publisher Anton Kippenberg, Rilke owed the two most productive years of his life: the years in Paris writing the New Poems (fourth-dimensional still lifes) and that semi-autobiographical symphony of fear, the Malte Laurids Brigge (Journal of My Other Self...