Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going It Alone? The current eruption of the chronic horror was touched off at last month's NATO meeting in Paris. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, eager to do his bit for Wieder-vereinigung, tried to get the U.S., Britain and France to support an invitation to Russia for a four-power standing committee that would meet periodically to discuss the German problem. Neither Washington nor London was very interested, judging that Russia would turn down the invitation anyway, and France flatly refused. Schröder could only issue his own unilateral communiqu...
...design the building. (Walton counted the votes in a hangar at Logan Airport, then did away with the ballots to preserve the secrecy the architects demanded.) They had agreed, with the six foreigners among them vigorously concurring, that the architect should be an American. Almost everyone listed Mies van der Rohe, the German-born septuagenarian who is generally looked upon (along with LeCorbusier and the late Frank Lloyd Wright) as one of the three greatest architects of the 20th century. Most of the selections also included Warnecke, because of his association with the President. There were several votes...
...prepared by the architects, and now they began traveling to meet each of the men they were considering for the job. Louis Kahn, whom Walton remembers as "leprechaunish," drew a plan of a platform stretching across Storrow Drive, with the library to be built atop the platform; Mies van der Rohe suggested a similar concept. Bunshaft, whose Beinecke at Yale was the only libray any of the architects submitted in their workbooks, was considered carefully. (When Walton and Mrs. Kennedy visited Yale to talk with Paul Rudolph they found that three of the seven men had buildings on the campus...
...with the world premiere of The Passion According to St. Luke by American Composer Randall Thompson, and again in October with a week-long international choral festival to be held in Symphony Hall. Among the participants: Britain's Huddersfield Choral Society, Vienna's Singverein of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir...
Aber natürlich! When Christian Democrats from the city of Bonn convene next month to select their candidate for the 1965 West German Parliamentary elections, they are expected to nominate the freshest whiff of springtime that ever wafted up the Rhine from Cologne: Konrad Adenauer, 89. Der Alte has been telling cronies that his idea of a hobby for those sunset years would be a back bench of the Bundestag for the term that ends...