Word: direktor
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...conjure up these two vignettes--my father en route to the synagogue, myself in tears as the school's Direktor made the announcement that barred me from the boating party--not in order to lay claim to extraordinary scars and sufferings that taught me the real meaning of tyranny and persecution, but merely to state that this early part of my past left me with an insight I have found useful, both as a historian and as a human being: there are evil people who won't be deterred from their nefarious doings by what might be considered...
...German symphonic life by using Mozart and Beethoven as the backbone of the repertory (instead of local celebrities like Anton Eberl and Karl Reissiger). Haydn and Handel were also often in his programs, along with such composers as Schubert, Liszt, Rossini, Schumann. And, of course, Mendelssohn. Moreover der Herr Direktor once and for all dispensed with the practice of inserting divertissements by harpists and the like between the movements of symphonies...
Marriage Disclosed. Herbert von Karajan, 50, Salzburg-born orchestra conductor, widely known as "Generalmusik-direktor of the continent of Europe," who was recently divorced (TIME, Sept. 22) by his second wife after 16 years of marriage; and Eliette Mouret, 19, French model; in Megeve, France...
...existing quasi-cartel." BZ's Editor Wilhelm Schulze, who ran the paper before Goebbels named his successor, hoped to get half a million readers again by sticking to BZ's old formula. Said Editor Schulze: "I want to provide lively reading for everyone from the Direktor down to the Hausfrau." But the uproar among Berlin papers at BZ appearing on the streets again was so loud that its initial circulation was below 100,000, and Editor Schulze found himself engaged in more public-relations work than editing...
Budapest sewer-jacks stared in astonishment: the Direktor-the chief of sanitation himself-leading a bomb-hunt through the city sewers! Up in the daylight, too,' strange things were going on. Along all the main streets, police searched apartments, checked residents' identity documents. "On a certain day," the police explained, an order would be given for "strict security." All windows must be shut tight and kept that way. "And don't forget to hang out flags," the police added...