Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, as if to say that anything these two composed is worth audition, Munich opened its summer opera festival with two of the lamest and most persistently neglected of Mozart's and Strauss's works: Thames, King of Egypt, which Mozart composed at a precocious 17, and Der Friedenstag, written when Strauss was a world-weary...
Rather than wage their campaign on major national problems, Brandt and the Socialists have stressed minor domestic welfare reforms, such as in air pollution, and have warned that a vote for "Der Alter" may be a vote for Franz Josef Strauss, the Christian Democrat's controversial Defense Minister, should Adenauer die in office...
Conversational Canapés. Gunther's theory of history (and Gibbon's) is that events are shaped by "accidents of personality." Focusing on each country mainly through its key men, he succeeds best with those he knows. He did not interview Adenauer (though he notes later that der Alte "will see almost anybody") and his sketch of "this tenacious old gentleman" seems curiously flimsy. On the other hand, he vividly pictures De Gaulle-whom he interviewed before the return to power-as "gnarled with ego" and "positively lunar," yet possessed of a curious humility that prompted...
...Friday from 1-2 p.m. in its garden (Kirkland St. and Divinity Ave.). The public is Divinity Ave.), The public is invited free of charge, and lunches may be brought. Each Wednesday the selection is related to a work of art. Next week: Mozard, Cost fan tutte; Hindemith, Mathis der Maler (Wed.); Schuller's Seven Studies on Themes by Paul Klee (Wed.): Stravinsky's Apollon Musagete; and Schubert's Octet...
...clutching rifles between their knees. Their bodyguards wore pistols in heavy holsters that sagged down to their knees, and the bullets in the bandoleers had been filed arrow-sharp. Almost all of Kuwait's tiny, 1,600-man army of tough Bedouins roared up to the northern bor der with Iraq in British-built armored cars, thoroughly alarmed at reports that Iraq was massing tanks just across the border. Only six days after Kuwait declared itself an independent nation and no longer a protectorate of Great Britain, Iraq had announced it was annexing its oil-rich neighbor...