Word: erika
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Onegin. A Lebanese-American born in Lowell, Mass., she began singing the Metropolitan's smallest roles four years ago, rose to starring parts through a combination of good looks (she is the Met's youngest, prettiest leading singer) and a warm, full-timbered voice. Her latest success: Erika in Samuel Barber's Vanessa (TIME, Jan. 27). Although a good singer, she is not yet a great one, and her voice must gain weight and authority before she can conquer such big mezzo roles as Amneris (Aïda) or the Princess Eboli (Don Carlo...
...Menotti's yarn is like a pulse-bumping 19th century melodrama that lacks the courage of its afflictions. The lover, when he finally arrives, is not the man Vanessa was waiting for, but his son Anatol, a fatally charming young man who promptly seduces Vanessa's niece Erika. From there on the plot seems to thunder toward a traditional deathbed climax: Vanessa falls in love with Anatol, they announce their engagement, and pregnant Erika rushes out into the bitter, stormy night. Yet death and destruction are sidetracked. Though Erika has a miscarriage, she survives her night...
...convent was founded shortly after the war by two Bible teachers, Dr. Klara Schlink, daughter of an engineering professor, and Erika Maddaus, daughter of a merchant. Even after Hitler had banned Bible classes, the two teachers went on instructing a group of girls in a Darmstadt attic. In the night of Sept. n, 1944, an Allied saturation raid blasted the city. Wrote Dr. Schlink (now Mother Basilea): "It was a different language from human preaching. It was as awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls...
Business & Vigils. With Mother Basilea in charge of the spiritual direction and Mother Martyria (Erika Maddaus) keeping the administration running efficiently, the sisters perform a repertory of a dozen religious plays, do social work in the slums, manufacture statuary, also maintain a stiff schedule of devotions. They keep silence all day except during "business hours" between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., hold many prayer vigils. At 6 p.m. each Friday, for instance, they gather in penance for the wrongs committed by the Germans against the Jews. "It cries, it cries without relief, the blood on our hands...
...parable of civilization in decay. The Magic Mountain outsold Hitler's Mein Kampf, but Hitler's quarrel with Mann was based on Mann's nonliterary championing of the old German tradition. One day in 1933, when Mann and his wife were vacationing in Switzerland, Klaus and Erika, their two eldest children, telephoned. "Stay in Switzerland," they advised. "Bad weather is coming." When Mann did not understand, they added: "The housecleaning will be too much for you." The housecleaning was done by the Nazis: the burning of his books, the revocation of his citizenship...