Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. George Madison Priest, 74, bearded, longtime (46 years) member of Princeton's faculty, professor emeritus of Germanic languages and literature, noted translator (Goethe's Faust); in Princeton. Known to generations of Princeton undergraduates for his nickname ("Judas Priest"), his gentle good humor and his rumpled tweeds, he was one of the original preceptors (tutors) appointed by Woodrow Wilson...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Wagner's Faust Overture. Conductor: Bruno Walter...
...anti-Christ will not be so called, otherwise he would have no followers. He will wear no red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a spear nor wave an arrowed tail as the Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the devil convince men that he does not exist, for he knows that he is never so strong as when men believe that he does not exist...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Gounod's Faust, with Tenor Jussi Bjoerling, Basso Ezio Pinza, Soprano Renée Mazella...
...Isolde (four hours), Bach's Art of Fugue, Mahler's Lied von der Erde, a psychology lecture by Sir Cyril Burt. a critical appraisal of U.S. novelist Henry James. Coming attractions: all Mozart's violin concertos, all Beethoven's piano sonatas, Goethe's Faust, a dramatization of Melville's Moby Dick...