Word: derring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aalto is utterly unconcerned with architectural movements or polemics. He deflects theoretical discussions with the imperious reply: "I build." For him, every structure poses its own questions of balance between man, machines and nature. Every answer is therefore fresh, poetic, charged with the identity of its architect. Mies van der Rohe had this quality; so did Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. Now Aalto, whom Wright called "a genius" 40 years ago, stands alone...
...Paris recently. Her basic message: anybody who thinks that Hitler was cruel, malevolent and even megalomaniacal is mistaken about his "good and human" nature. He was the sort of man, she recalls, who could be tempted into cheating on his vegetarian diet with liver dumplings. As Winni tells it, der Führer had "immensely appealing" eyes, played the piano "very nicely," and was "really touching with the children...
With Jews, too? Their persecution, insists Winni, was not der Führer's doing. "The main instigator was [Julius] Streicher [Gauleiter of Franconia]," Winni says, though she does concede that Adolf "let himself be influenced too much and shouldn't have given in to these radical demands." In any case, she adds, such things "were happening on the outside. But that didn't affect...
...major event in the history of opera in America has been taking place in Seattle over the past two weeks. The Seattle Opera Company presented the four operas of Wagner's Der Ring der Nibelungen in German within a week. That is the way the Ring is regularly performed at the Wagner Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, but almost never in the U.S. Then the Seattle company spun around and repeated the cycle in English. That bilingual trick is a feat that no other company in the world has equaled...
...other original inmates, Walther Funk, head of the Reichsbank, Czechoslovakia's Nazi Boss Konstantin von Neurath, Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, and Admirals Erich Rae-der and Karl Doenitz were released either after completing their sentences or because of failing health...