Word: emill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Emil Nolde (real name: Emil Hansen), 88, pioneer German expressionist painter, who, with others of a group called Die Brücke (the Bridge), brought a vivid emotional style into German painting; in Seebüll, Germany. A major influence on German art, Nolde painted vigorous, glowing canvases, was a member of the Nazi Party, sold his "decadent" painting to Art Lover Hermann Göring while Hitler looked the other...
Sheep Without Shepherds. Such an eminent Christian as Swiss Theologian Emil Brunner, now teaching at Japan's International Christian University, has stated that if he were Japanese he would probably bypass denominational Christianity to join Mukyokai...
Friedberg's feat was to solve a problem, first posed by the late Emil Post of New York's City College in 1944, that has been baffling mathematicians ever since. The problem: Does each non-recursive, recursively enumerable set have the property that every recursively enumerable set is recursive in it? Post himself thought not, but it was not until young Friedberg came along that anyone had the proof...
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor (Emil Gilels; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner; Victor). Soviet Pianist Gilels in a splendid version of this oft-mauled work. With the driving assistance of one of the most effective orchestras in the U.S.. he turns in a performance that is always at the peak of expression, whether tender, fiery or aggressive...
Untouched by professional coaching. Dave Stephens has copied his style from the great Czech Emil Zatopek. During the World Youth Festival at Bucharest in 1953, the two men became friends. An unspectacular performer at Bucharest, Stephens came home and began to break Australian records right and left. Often the races were run in foul weather, and often Dave ran barefoot. He could not afford track shoes...