Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bruckner: Mass In E Minor (Hamburg State Opera Choir and Orchestra, Max Thurn conducting; Capitol-Telefun-ken, 10 sides). Capitol chose well for its first entry into the classical field; this beautiful Mass is the second of three Masses composed by Anton Bruckner (1824-96) and is one of his finest works. Performance: excellent; recording: fair...
Though he had studied under some of the world's greatest skiers (among them: the Austrian shepherd Anton Seelos), Emile was never quite satisfied with what he was learning. He began jotting down notes on new theories, would steal up a mountain even at night to try those theories out. Soon he had a style all his own, so fluid and effortless that in 1938 the French Ski Federation adopted it as official. It was a revolution in skiing technique. The French revolution has been spreading ever since...
...also a year in which literary figures were allowed to speak for themselves: Andre Gide's Journal, Vol. 2, rich with evidence of the creative mind's way of work; Franz Kafka's morbid Diaries; Anton Chekhov's plain, warm Private Papers; Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters in Untriangulated Stars which told the painful story of an American poet's struggle for survival...
...experiments for Agene's makers, Wallace & Tiernan of Newark; on an Agenized diet, cats, rabbits, mink and dogs developed fits. Experimenters sometimes found the brain cells of Agenized dogs shrunken, misshapen or missing. A similar diet had no bad effects on 20 human guinea pigs. Nonetheless, Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, announced last winter (TIME, Jan. 12) that Agene may make the eater nervous...
...plot moons over the rise of a young ballerina (Moira Shearer) and a young composer (Marius Goring) in Impresario Anton Walbrook's celebrated ballet troupe. Having spent what seems like a feature-length lifetime in making the two youngsters famous, it runs them afoul of the impresario's deadpan dictum that marriage makes a career in ballet impossible...