Word: ernstli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With remarkable speed, the Bonn government cracked down on the Neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party (TIME, May 21). A West German court last week found its führer, rabble-rousing Otto Ernst Remer, guilty of slander; during last winter's election campaign, Remer had accused Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's administration of subservience to the Western democracies ("Adenauer [is] nothing but a receiving station for allied orders"). Sentence: four months in jail...
Indiana's Parsifal is only one of several operas the Workshop produces each year, but the only one that has become a perennial. The idea came from Music Professor Ernst Hoffman, who wanted his students to tackle Wagner, picked Parsifal as one of the composer's works that is least demanding and least liable to tax young voices. Hoffman himself wrote a straightforward English libretto...
Their medals tinkling discreetly on their chests, the five military judges walked into the court. Then the four defendants marched in. First among them was a tall old man, with pince-nez and a vinegar-sour face, who bowed stiffly to the presiding judge. He was Lieut. General Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, 72, military governor of Belgium in World War II, accused together with three other members of his occupation regime of causing the execution of 240 hostages, deporting Belgians for slave labor, deporting Jews to death camps...
...days it looked as if Berlin had lost its staunchest defender against Communism, indomitable Mayor Ernst Reuter...
...Vienna, Ninotchka, Ernst Lubitsch's sprightly 1939 spoof of Communists and the U.S.S.R., could no longer be seen. The movie had packed two of the city's theaters for weeks. But when the Russians took their turn at policing Vienna's international district, they "suggested" that it was time to change the bill...