Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superstitious mystic, Mahler brooded over Beethoven and Bruckner, each of whom died after finishing his ninth symphony. When Mahler had written eight, he tried to dodge the unlucky number nine by titling his greatest symphonic work Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth...
...Sent to the House the Wagner-Ellen-der-Taft long-range housing bill providing 1) Government loans to small-income builders, 2) slum clearance, 3) a goal of 15,000,000 new dwellings in the next ten years...
...appeal for help. Curious to know its radio fans' taste in opera, the Met asked 123,000 of them to pick their favorite operas. The choices: 1) A'ida, 2) Carmen, 3) La Traviata. Among operas less frequently heard, listeners picked Hansel and Gretel, Boris Gudunov, and Der Rosenkavalier. (The Met promised to broadcast all six next year.) Notably unchosen: Wagner...
...greystone mansion that houses Argentina's Foreign Ministry, Chief of Staff General Carlos von der Becke last week told assembled foreign ambassadors what the Army planned: an "operation purity," soldiered by a 250,000-man patrol, which would assure electoral honesty from the moment voters entered the polls until the last vote was impartially counted, a month or so later...
...first time in twelve years she is not singing at the Metropolitan this winter-although in San Francisco she recently sang her greatest role, the Marschallin, in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. She regrets that Strauss did not oppose Naziism more actively, but says: "Shall one expect that a great artist is also a great person? I know artists with lousy characters. It is strange that the gift is given sometimes to a shell that is not worthy of it, nicht...