Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin's vast Sportpalast rumbled one night last week with a great gathering of the "German Christians," Nazi Wing of the Evangelical Church (TIME. June 12, et seq.). on deck to demand the super-Nazification of the Church. Their presiding officer was brisk, sleek, pomaded young Rev. Joachim Hossenfelder. Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg. Their prime hot-head was one Dr. Reinhold Krause. Meeting a few days after the 450th birthday of their Church's founder, Martin Luther, they proceeded to juggle ecclesiastical dynamite. According to Nazi Pastor Krause, German Protestantism needed a "second Reformation." He submitted three...
...chains. It was a fine point whether Uncle Nadir ought to give the throne back to Nephew Amanullah, still hiding in Rome. A few rabble-shouts persuaded Nadir to take it for himself. Though beset by the plots of bitter Afghans, one of whom assassinated his elder brother in Berlin last June, Nadir ruled firmly and well until last week...
When the new Malkiri Conservatory in Boston wanted a big name to plume its faculty list this autumn, it sent an invitation to Arnold Schönberg who, being a Jew, was leaving his job at the Prussian Academy of Music in Berlin. Great was the interest aroused by Schönberg's acceptance. He has upset conservative concertgoers more than any other modern composer. Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago. The much talked-of Wozzeck, which the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company...
...scientists slim, smallish, pleasant-spoken Dr. Schrodinger journeyed to the U. S. few years ago, lectured at Caltech and other universities in excellent English. Born and educated in Vienna, he was professor of theoretical physics at Stuttgart and Zurich before joining the faculty of the University of Berlin in 1927. This year he is at Oxford, may stay there permanently because, according to friends, he dislikes the way things are going in the Fatherland. When he is not working he likes to ski, skate, swim, climb mountains...
Retired. Philip Hale, 79, dean of U. S. music critics; as critic for the Boston Herald and program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A onetime lawyer, he studied music in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Paris, became an organist and choral conductor, a newspaper critic in 1890. As Herald critic since 1903, he was famed for witty, lucid, learned writing, for his bright Windsor ties and for the green felt bag which he carried almost everywhere...