Word: berges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program for the new National Socialist German Workers Party. In 1923, when Adolf Hitler staged his beer-hall Putsch, his torrential pamphleteer was at his side. Next day, when the parading Nazi leaders were fired upon and Adolf Hitler ducked so hard that he dislocated his arm, Alfred Rosen berg was not prominent enough to be arrested. While the imprisoned Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, Rosenberg produced his Mythos of the Twentieth Century, the secondary Nazi bible...
...crossexamination, U.S. Attorney Matthias F. Correa concentrated less on this story than on its author. Willie admitted that he had been known at various times as Morris Bioff, William Berg, Harry or Henry Martin, Mr. Bronson. Then Correa went into Bioff's testimony on previous occasions, got him to admit to one lie after another given under oath. When the total reached six, Judge John Clark Knox interrupted: "Don't you feel bound by the sanctity of an oath...
...Alban Berg, Schoenberg's greatest disciple, composed a Violin Concerto just before his death. This magnificent piece of music is superior to Pierrot Lunaire chiefly because any architectonically-built composition surpasses a chain of short movements, but apart from that it possesses an immediacy of appeal and an emotional impact almost unequalled in any other modern work. Suite Lyrique, for string quartet, was for a long while the only thing of Berg's available on records. And it affected most listeners as a piece of sheer gibberish, a composer's nightmare in which the various instruments were twisted and tortured...
Arnold Schoenberg himself once said: "I will not show you that my music is beautiful. You know it not . . . I know it." And this might be taken as the lasting and only motto against those who apply to Schoenberg and Berg criticism like that of the Musical Courier...
...fans began to call her "another Patty Berg." Like Patty, Betty is a tomboy, was an outstanding softball player on the West Coast before taking up golf four years ago. On the side, she plays the bass viol, draws cartoons, writes sport features for her hometown newspaper, the Long Beach Press-Telegram...