Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bist du schön-Please let me explain...
...bist du schön means that you're grand...
...pockets of Secunda and Jacobs. Secunda's mother was so certain that God was thus punishing her for her sins that she went to a synagogue and remained there for an entire day, fasting and praying for forgiveness. But in the 24 years that followed, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön went on relentlessly inflating the fortunes of others. People have bought 250,000 copies of Bei Mir sheet music and 2,500,000 Bei Mir records-for a total gross...
...Secunda, 66, now writes liturgical music, and in summer is music director of a resort hotel in the Catskills. Jacobs runs a Yiddish vaudeville house in Miami Beach. Secunda has signed a new contract with Harms, Inc., music publishers, and the partners are assured that Bei Mir Bist Du Schön is still worth at least $5,000 yearly. They shrug off the $350,000 they might have had. Says Secunda: "Mother was convinced that the big day would come...
Drouin's destination is Mariakerke, a large, gloomy insane asylum where his old friend Du Roy is an intern. Both men are plagued by the European past, the American present and the possibly harrowing future. Drouin, his right hand maimed by battle wounds, has "got war" the way other people have smallpox. Du Roy, who plunged from the idealism of the resistance to light-fingered wealth in the black market, has turned to medicine out of guilt. The two men circle like scavengers over the asylum, searching for glints of God or reason in the chatter of psychotics...