Word: berge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, Sept. 4, in its article on "Little Siberia," makes a pardonable mistranslation of Bergfrauen as "mountain women," since the German language can at times be untranslatable. The word Berg, although it means mountain when it stands alone, means mine when it precedes another noun; e.g., Bergwerk-mine, Bergakademie-mining institute, Bergmann-miner. Bergmann, it is true, can mean mountaineer, but only when we are speaking of mountains. In this instance, the term Bergfrauen refers to women who mine...
Bowles: Concerto for Two Pianos, Winds and Percussion (Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, pianists, with winds and percussion conducted by Daniel Saiden-berg; Columbia, i side LP). Novelist (The Sheltering Sky) and Composer (incidental music for Broadway's The Glass Menagerie, Twelfth Night) Paul Bowles has here thought up some novel noises which are barely incidental to music. Recording: good...
...Donnell succeeds Warren Berg, former College athlete, who gave up his basketball and baseball posts in order to accept a business position...
Died. Dr. Albert Ashton Berg, 77, surgeon and bibliophile, onetime (1946-48) president of the International College of Surgeons; in Manhattan. As a surgeon, Berg pioneered in the radical treatment of stomach and duodenal ulcers (cutting out a large part of the stomach). As a bibliophile, he assembled a treasure in books and manuscripts, donated it to the New York Public Library...
...Michel '50, Graham, William George Brown '51, Hudner, Richard Reilly '51, Lynch, John Dee '52, Mauran, Duncan Hunter '50, Plissner, William Alan '51, Post, Richard St. Francis '51, Spence, William James '52, Thayer, Edward Clailin '51, Thomas, Richard Henry, 3d '52, Waring, Bayard David '51, Yost, Edward DuRoss '52, Berg, Maurice '50 (Manager...