Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Gieseking played and prospered in Nazi Germany, millions were being burned and gassed. Many of these were undoubtedly "artists" of great talent who believed that "artistic license" does not remove a man's responsibility for his own principles and actions. Gieseking chose to play for the Fatherland; had his side triumphed, he undoubtedly would have played Carnegie Hall more than once. Should we welcome him now because we won? Are contemporary German artists that indispensable to our artistic lives...
Good Food. Ivan never stoops to understatement in praising Perón and the regime. He once told a Buenos Aires rally: "When in Washington, far away from the fatherland, in the solitude of the embassy, I first read of the, rights of labor as propounded by our President, I was so moved that I instinctively and reverently stood...
...pirated. He owns his Hollywood house, and recently rented another, plus a grand piano, for Soulima and family (his daughter Milene lives near by). A U.S. citizen since 1945, he likes to be known as a "California composer." And when Soviet Russia calls him a renegade "man without a fatherland," Stravinsky snorts: "I am an émigré from the Czars, not the Soviets...
...gallows, Brandt was unrepentant. He began a farewell speech. "It is no shame to stand on this scaffold. I served my fatherland as others before me . . ." He was still talking when the black hood dropped over his face...
...correspondents in Berlin, the invitation was an eye-popper. The Soviet-dominated Bulgarian government, which has shown little liking for U.S. newsmen, politely invited them to cover Premier Georgi Dimitrov's big Fatherland Front Congress in Sofia. The terms sounded too good to be true: there would be no censorship; the correspondents could go where they pleased, stay as long as they liked, and English-speaking Sofia newsmen would serve as interpreters...