Word: berg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nightmare school blew in on the same wind that unroofed the old Habsburg Empire: Kafka grew up in Habsburg Prague; Alban Berg, who wrote the gloomy Wozzeck, was a Viennese; Bela Bartok, whose Bluebeard's Castle almost makes a sympathetic character out of Bluebeard, was a Hungarian; even Luigi Dallapiccola, whose opera, The Prisoner (TIME, May 29, 1950), gives him front rank in the new school, grew up in Austrian Istria...
House of Glass (Fri. 9:35 p.m., NBC). Gertrude (The Goldbergs) Berg's new comedy...
William Baronoff, Richard K. Berg, Murry Biochin, Jerome A. Cohen, Russell C. Dilks, S. Gordon Elkins, Kiaus Eppier, Joseph M. Field, Alan Gladstone, Howard A. Gilckstein, Anne Gross, Alexander P. Hoffmann, Robert L. Lasky, N. A. Levin, Stuart M. Paley, Alvin H. Schulman, Genne R. Sliver, Daniel M. Singer, Gorden B. Spivacak, David R. Tillinghast, Gerald Walpin, George C. Zachary...
...arrested, tried by a mysterious court for an unspecified crime, chivied by a cold, incomprehensible bureaucracy until he is finally led away by two black-clad agents and stabbed to death. This macabre theme of man tortured by forces he does not understand was successfully used by Alban Berg in Wozzeck and by Gian-Carlo Menotti in his more popular Consul. Salzburg first-nighters, remembering Von Einem's earlier, impressive opera, Danton's Death (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), came with high hopes. But by the final curtain, they found themselves less than spellbound, responded with lukewarm applause...
...went along with Arthur Vanden-berg's leadership in the Republicans' postwar policy in foreign affairs, Van's so-called "unpartisanship." But Taft had misgivings, which Vandenberg also began to entertain before the end of his career. When the Michigan Senator died of cancer in 1951, Taft began to express himself with vigor on foreign affairs, attacking what he saw as defects and ambiguities in the NATO pact, challenging both the President's right and wisdom in committing large numbers of U.S. troops to Europe, fixing the blame for the Korean attack on the Administration...