Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶U.S. participation in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
*Last week Furtwängler was invited by the Russians to return to Berlin as director of the Staatsoper and senior cultural adviser to Russians in Germany. The invitation was opposed by the U.S., which suspects he was a Nazi sympathizer.
Among venerable establishments like the Three Hussars, the Crooked Lantern and Aunt Resi's, Broadwayish nightclubs sprouted. Racily named Esquire, Zebra and Heidebo, they offered in neat, cultural synthesis U.S.-style jazz and Viennese-style wine (instead of hard liquor).
Cultural Commander. Cugat's first shrewd step in 1927, after a turn as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, was to join Vincent Lopez' orchestra. ("It was tough. I had never been in a dance hall in my life. I had lots to unlearn about music.") He...
Other Connolly faults are an occasional forcing of elegance, a weakness for the rare and classy word ("the barathrum of incompetence"), and a neglect which almost seems an aversion for U.S. literature. Connolly's insularity is profound and perhaps defensive. It is, however, an insularity of European rather than...