Word: brecht
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sign a statement supporting the Soviet stand in Czechoslovakia. East Germany opened trials in East Berlin of some 100 people who protested against the Warsaw Pact invasion. Ironically, among those sentenced to a two-year prison term was a woman named Sandra Weigl. She is related to Playwright Bertolt Brecht, whose works reflected his hope that Communism would end man's inhumanity to man and usher in a new age of justice...
...Measures Taken--Brecht. At the HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, 1555 Mass...
Adverse criticism has so far not inhibited Zeffirelli's energy, esteem or income. His salary for Romeo and Juliet was $50,000 plus a hefty percentage, and he will make even more from his new projects, notably a movie of Brecht's Galileo, starring Rod Steiger. At his bachelor villa near Rome, Zeffirelli remains the low-pressure gran signore, entertaining ten or twelve friends for lunch, inhaling gusts of Winston smoke from fingertip-held cigarettes. His braggadocio extends even to his genealogy. "One day my father showed up with an armful of documents," he recalls. "He finally...
...EXCEPTION AND THE RULE, adapted from Brecht by the West Side Story team, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. Directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel. Oilmen race across an Asian desert...
...starting his 1968-69 season with a five-week European tour. At season's end, he ceases to be the Philharmonic's permanent conductor, and plans to de vote most of his time to writing music; his first big project is a new Broadway production based on Brecht's The Exception and the Rule. By virtue of his achievements with the Philharmonic and as composer, author, pianist and TV personality-not to say his new eminence as a 50-year-old-Bernstein is entitled to be called American music's most ar ticulate elder statesman...