Word: bach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Dr. Forbes-Sempill, 40, who had spent an adult life not only emotionally but physiologically on the verge of manhood, was in fact-and law-a man. "I have been a man biologically and socially for several months, leading a bach elor's life and discarding the last remnants of the tedious upbringing as a girl," he said. By an upland salmon stream, the heir to the family baronetcy (but not the barony), Rear Admiral Arthur Lionel Ochoncar Forbes-Sempill, 74, considered his new status. "As uncle of the present peer. I succeed," he told a reporter...
Auerbach denied everything, except having used the title Herr Doktor. for which, since his concentration-camp days, he admitted a certain fondness. Last week the court (three out of the five judges were former Nazis) found against Avie:"bach and Ohrenstein. sentenced Auerbach to 30 months in jail and $643 in fines, Ohrenstein to one year and $2,380 in fines. Auerbach, his arm in a sling, sick with diabetes contracted during his concentration-camp days, politely thanked the court, complimented the chief judge for the fairness of the trial, though he was somewhat critical of the "terror verdict...
...concert hall, and flamenco music, with its sensuality and its thumping outbursts, is the guitar's most exciting province. The vocal parts add an Oriental flavor. An Andrés Segovia Recital (Decca) is a more reflective guitar record: the soloist specializes in pure versions of Bach, Schubert and Mendelssohn...
East Germany's Communist government decided to dissolve these provinces: Brandenburg, once the domain of the Margrave of Brandenburg for whom Johann Sebastian Bach composed his six famous concertos: Saxony, birthplace of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire; Mecklenburg, once obedient to the Duke of Saxony; Saxony-Anhalt, which produced Martin Luther and George Frederick Handel; Thuringia, a center of Luther's Reformation...
...Edouard Dermithe with his masklike pallor are as gravely handsome as young Greek deities, as cruel and capricious as little beasts. They are indeed terrible young ones, who resemble each other physically as well as in their temperaments of fire and ice. In the background, a swelling Vivaldi-Bach concerto score shores up the fragmented melodramatics of this brilliantly macabre Cocteau party...