Word: berge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little, seductively, talked a lot, intimately, and smoothly did the Charleston, the dance she took with her to Paris in the '20s. Although everyone seemed to like her sequined body stocking, a few fans could not help remembering how pretty she used to look at the Folies-Bergère clad only in bananas...
This is not the place to argue with Peter C. Berg as to whether all showings of Casablanca are for educational purpose. I cannot, however, let pass his aspersions on my sentimentality. I am, Sir, a man who weeps at the playing of the Marseillaise each time he sees Casablanca (fourteen times, at most recent count), and I would gladly abandon my writs and demurrers to follow Ilsa Lund to the ends of the earth. I do not know who Mr. Berg may have in mind as a man whose heart is his least vulnerable spot. I suggest he round...
...strikes us as a man who would pass up an introduction to Ilsa Lund in favor of an evening with chancery cases. A man who wouldn't recognize a beautiful friendship if he tripped over one. A man, in short, whose heart is his least vulnerable spot. Peter C. Berg...
...series of lectures across the U.S., Uppsala University Professor Karin Westman Berg is challenging the popular view of young Swedes as symbols of sexual liberty, if not license. In studies of Swedish sexuality, she has found that most Uppsala students believe that a couple ought to know each other from five to seven months before having sex. Among Swedes, she says, 80% of the males and 90% of the females consider fidelity "absolutely essential" in marriage. Westman Berg acknowledges that marriage is under attack in her country and that a fifth of all Swedish babies are born to unmarried parents...
There are essentially three kinds of operas: those that glorify the human voice (Bellini, Donizetti), those that glorify the orchestra (Strauss, Berg) and those that glorify both (Mozart, Wagner). What would the ultimate non-or anti-opera be? Obviously, a work that glorified neither singers nor orchestra -in fact, had no singers or orchestra...