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...make up for the slow tempos and truncated phrases of the other two cantatas, Collins startedWachet auf! (BWV 140) so fast that he almost left the orchestra behind. The opening chorus was a bit heavy, but it had an intensity that the earlier works lacked. Despite some rough spots, it was the most exciting chorus of the evening...
...know. "The visions show otherwise," she replied. On a second visit, she offered some advice on domestic policy: "The White House must not pamper the colored people, but rather help them to help themselves." F.D.R. seemed reluctant to see her go. "Take good care of the ball," he said. "Auf Wiedersehen" said Mrs. Dixon...
...them, as for many of the martyrs, the old denominational hostilities crumpled before the reality of their common fate and common cause. "We are like brothers," Lange said of their relationship. And when Stellbrink stepped up to the guillotine, he told his Catholic companions: "Auf Wiedersehen im Himmel." So close was their relationship that one Catholic priest has proposed that all four be presented to Rome for canonization...
...Auf Wiedersehen." In the early church, every community honored its own martyrology of local saints who had died for the faith-and similarly many towns in modern Germany have their heroes, many of them virtually unknown outside the country. Lübeck, for example, conducts interdenominational religious services every year honoring three Catholic priests, Edward Müller, Hermann Lange and Johannes Prassek, and an Evangelical pastor, Karl Friedrich Stellbrink. Arrested in 1942, the four men became good friends in prison and died together at Hamburg in November...
Throughout the tireless round of farewell appearances-including one at Cologne, the old man's birthplace, where thousands of faithful Christian Democrats rallied to cry Auf Wieder-sehen-Adenauer returned to two themes that he hoped to leave behind in Germany's consciousness. The first was that any East-West "détente talk" could only lead to "new Munichs." Revealing that he himself last year had offered Moscow a ten-year "truce" in return for better treatment of East Ger many's people (he was turned down), Adenauer insisted that any hope of easing the cold...