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...Indeed, he's done so much that I sometimes suspect there's more than one Roger Ebert. And now I may have proof. The Amazon sites in the U.S., France, Japan and China list Roger Ebert as the author of a German economics treatise, Die Zustandigkeit Der Tarifvertragsparteien Zum Abschlub Von Verbands- Und Firmentarifvertrag (which translates as "The competence of the Rate of Collective Agreements to the conclusion of federation and firm collective agreements"). Roger is expert in many fields, but Ebert could be someone else...
...right. In Europe, any such optimism was overwhelmed by a half-century of war and talk of war. The view of a German lieutenant colonel, Baron Colmar von der Goltz, in 1883 that "the strength of a nation lies in its youth," was pretty much shared by all the muscle-flexing European powers of that era (though few were crass enough to argue, as he did, that armies needed the young because "it is only the young that depart from life without pangs.") World War I ultimately spent the lives of as many as 3 million of Europe's adolescents...
...slow in learning how to talk. "My parents were so worried," he later recalled, "that they consulted a doctor." Even after he had begun using words, sometime after the age of 2, he developed a quirk that prompted the family maid to dub him "der Depperte," the dopey one. Whenever he had something to say, he would try it out on himself, whispering it softly until it sounded good enough to pronounce aloud. "Every sentence he uttered," his worshipful younger sister recalled, "no matter how routine, he repeated to himself softly, moving his lips." It was all very worrying...
...museum - escalators, ventilation ducts, even its steel structural framework - were put on the outside, making it easier to produce large, uninterrupted gallery spaces within. Rogers (and Piano) took the Modernist rule that a building should clearly express its structure and extended it into realms where Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier never ventured...
...Woolf and Betanski’s outstanding serenades and Marvosh’s strong theatrical performance do the most to make the production memorable. Some will enjoy the deceptions and plot twists of “Der Rosenkavalier” and others will find them a bit over-the-top, but if nothing else, the compelling melodies and heart-wrenching harmonies of a few vocalists make the four hours worth...