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...celestial hierarchy. His are not stereotypic seraphim but more fragile, bemusing creatures who weep and clap for joy. According to art historian Werner Haftmann, Klee was long bedeviled by a childlike couplet of his own invention that kept running through his head: Einst werd ich liegen im Nirgend, bei einem Engel irgend, a rhyming play on words which roughly translates as, "One of these days I shall lie in nothingness, beside an angel of some kind." Indeed, there is so much visual wordplay going on in Klee's pictorial poetry that the show almost demands a detective-like second tour...
...Next year Bernstein and the Viennese stage director Otto Schenk will collaborate on a new production of Fidelio. Also scheduled are expensively mounted revivals of Verdi's Macbeth, Gluck's Iphigénie and such relatively little-known works as Smetana's Dalibor and Gottfried von Einem's Der Prozess...
...Greenmantle, for instance, another Hannay pal called Sandy Arbuthnot spurns the passionate advances of a fetching but fell lady spy named Hilda von Einem. "You must know, Madam," he says as bullets whiz about them, "that I am a British officer." Nowadays such behavior is hopelessly out of all fashion, literary and otherwise...
...major account with task forces of account executives, market researchers and other specialists. They have also borrowed U.S. advertising lingo. Today's German agencies are staffed by specialists such as der Layouter, der Texter and der Media-Mann. They work up die Marketing Proposition and test it on einem Consumer Panel. If it goes over, they prepare eine Direct Mail Kampagne or perhaps TV spots, always hammering home ein guter Slogan. They then make die Presentation to der Client. And along with its catchy words, Madison Avenue has also exported many of its contagious habits. Mused one Frankfurt adman...
Soon after the missilemen moved in, Principal Brown found himself with the problem of teaching youngsters who were scientifically more hep than the school's science program. In 1957 Brown raided the missile base for electronic equipment, and Biology Teacher Gerald Einem set up a volunteer advanced research class. Given their heads, Melbourne's students brewed up a brain storm. One built an artificial kidney, another a digital computer. They tried everything from inducing cancer in mice to making toads lay eggs out of season. It got so that local repairmen refused to fix anything at the school...