Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic Ideals. It was Ray Lascoe's job to infuse the new prosperity with democratic ideals. There were free city council elections. As Oberbiirgermeister the councillors chose Johann Peter Brandenburg, 44, an anti-Nazi lawyer who shared Lascoe's enthusiasm. Lascoe wanted the council to meet town-meeting style; no Pforzheim municipal official had ever before exposed himself to public questioning. Brandenburg winced but obliged, and won the city's first elections...
...Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) met to hear reports on the state of the church, plot its course for another year, and elect a new Moderator to guide it. It was the 150th anniversary year of Presbyterian national missions, and as Moderator, the delegates, without a dissenting vote, chose the churchman who knows most about the church's mission work: the Rev. Hermann N. Morse, 64, of New York...
...glumness vanished as the returns came in. This week, with the count nearly completed, Eisenhower had carried all 18 delegates, swept 68% of the Republican vote. California's Governor Earl Warren, who chose Oregon for his most ambitious campaign to date...
...Paris last fall, Kempff played the complete Beethoven cycle in recital, and Paris' critics forthwith ranked him ahead of Schnabel, Backhaus and Serkin. For the time being, at least, U.S. Beethoven fans will have to appraise his works from recordings. Like his fellow German pianist, Walter Gieseking, Kempff chose to go on playing in Germany under Hitler, now seems disinclined to risk McCarran Act visa difficulties, and the kind of uproar that sent Gieseking home in 1949. He has recorded most of the Beethoven sonatas in the past (for Polydor), but the Decca disks are new and marked...
Third Ending. "If my story is worth telling, it is because I rejected in turn each of the characteristic endings of life in our time-the revolutionary ending and the success ending. I chose a third ending...