Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Szell (pronounced Sell), choosy Czecho-Hungarian conductor and a Hitler-hating refugee, was unable to conduct the touring Metropolitan Opera's performance of Die Meistersinger in Chicago. He had German measles...
...latest conductor to make a first-class impression on U.S. musical criticism is George Szell (pronounced Sell). This week the husky, formidable-mannered Czecho-Hungarian winds up a season at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera during which he has directed some of the finest Wagner the U.S. has heard in a generation...
...Czecho-Russian treaty points the way to a "general security system" (as desired by the U.S.). But the U.S.S.R. will have no truck with "artificial and lifeless unifications, such as federations...
...Washington there was no such clarity. The U.S. State Department was still on the record with its cold comment on the Czecho-Russian treaty; the unofficial explanation was still that the agreement did not fit the U.S. concept of "overall security." London sources took a precisely opposite view, held with the Russians that the treaty neither contradicted the principles of Teheran nor alarmed the British. One possible explanation: once again Mr. Roosevelt, speaking warmly of the Russians and all their recent works, knew more about actual U.S. policy than the State Department's functionaries did. A corollary explanation...
...Czecho Slovakia, this sports sabotage soon became the prototype and nucleus of the underground movement. Though many of Norway's top athletes have escaped to join United Nations' forces, sports clubs remain important cells...