Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some composers challenge posterity with a roar. Others woo it with seductive languor or graceful wit. Austrian Composer Anton Webern conjured it with a whisper. A shy, intense man who physically shrank from noise, he wrote spare, slight pieces filled with directions like "scarcely audible" and "dying away." Such was the understated economy of his scores that his life's work amounts to a bare three hours of playing time. Nearly all of his compositions take less than ten minutes to perform. He turned out works containing as much silence as music, and that was how an indifferent world...
...life ended in an explosion of violence. One night in 1945, while visiting his son-in-law at the Austrian resort of Mittersill, he stepped outdoors for a cigar, unaware that U.S. occupation forces were at that moment closing in on the house to arrest his son-in-law for black-market activities. Somehow he encountered a U.S. soldier in the dark. He was shot, staggered inside and died...
...cast is varied and larger than could possibly be packed on a stage. The hero Stanley is a young Jewish playwright from Ohio, talented but vain, who is battening on the smash success of his first Broadway comedy. He falls in love with Stephanie von Arnim, a beautiful, aristocratic Austrian actress, and goes to live in her Salzburg castle with the hazy intention of fashioning a comedy for her talents and her accent...
Divorced. Nancy Kwan, 29, won-ton-sized (34-21-34) Eurasian beauty who starred in Hollywood's The World of Suzie Wong and Flower Drum Song; and Austrian Hotel Owner Peter Pock, 28; after six years of marriage, one child; in Innsbruck...
...ordinary times, U.N. Alloy Steel Corp. would scarcely be a phenomenon to excite Wall Street. Even though the ten-year-old, Boston-based firm, which imports and distributes Japanese and Austrian specialty steel products, showed an 18% return on its invested capital, its profits last year reached only $315,529. It operates with seven warehouses and 30 salesmen. Yet last week, when Alloy Steel brought out its first public issue of common stock, eager buyers not only snapped up the entire 358,150-share offering at $10, but bid the price up to $19 a share in the first hour...