Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After World War II Zaisser returned to Germany, became Minister of the Interior in Saxony. Last August he received a new title: Chef der Abteilung für Schulung bei der deutschen Verwaltung des Inneren (Chief of the Division for Training Connected with the German Administration of the Interior). The title was a fancy cover for his real job, head of the Bereitschaften-cadre army...
...bustling little Director Laszlo Halasz, the late Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier looked like a natural for his New York City Opera Co. Its conversational style, he thought, was ideally suited to his City Center opera house...
Furthermore, Strauss was box office, as Halasz had proved with Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos. And, best of all, he had just the cast to sing the opera. Last week, Der Rosenkavalier' s first City Opera Co. performance proved Director Halasz exactly right...
...papers had rushed into print. The ugly note in the new dawn of press freedom was that many of the newcomers were former Nazi and super-nationalist editors and publishers, originally barred because of unsavory political records. Max Willmay, who used to publish Julius Streicher's anti-Semitic Der Sturmer, was now pub lishing two Bavarian papers. Dr. Othmar Best, editor of the Deutsche Allgemeim Zeitung in its Nazi heyday, had started the Nlirnberg Neue Kurier, and ex-Brownshirt Gustav Schellenberger inaugurated the Wiesbadener Tageblatt this week. Immediate effect of the new newspapers was not political but economic...
...through the centuries. But a few big names survived for the town to boast about: Master Illuminator Jean de Tavernier and Tapestry-maker Pasquier Grenier, whose works, commissioned by the great lords of the 15th Century, are now treasured by the museums and libraries of Europe; Painters Roger van der Weyden, Robert Campin and Jacques Daret, whose realistic detail and rich color placed them in the vanguard of the great Flemish artists of the Renaissance...