Word: franz
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Cold Garrets & Warm Music. A considerable amount of immortal music has been written in cold garrets, with an empty larder in the background. Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn lived comfortable lives, but Mozart, after a life of penny-counting, was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, and Franz Schubert sold his songs for as little...
This astounding statement was made in London last week during the interrogation of stocky, taciturn Colonel General Franz Halder. Chief of the German General Staff from 1938 to 1942, Halder planned the campaigns against Poland, Norway, the Lowlands, France, the opening attack on Russia...
...wartime Government of Premier Josef Franz Hoop, rocklike conservative, had dutifully resigned. Named new Premier last week was Dr. Alexander Frick, rocklike conservative. His program: extended socialization. In his clifftop castle Prince Francis Joseph II approved the switch...
Formidable Lingo. The Freudians' Yearbook (International Universities Press; $10) contains contributions from Dr. Brill; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg (the apostle to the publishers, who psychoanalyzed Marshall Field III and Ralph McAllister Ingersoll); Dr. Karl A. Menninger (head of Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic); Dr. Franz Alexander (high priest of Chicago's Institute for Psychoanalysis). Laymen who would like to take a peek inside the temple will have a hard time; the services are conducted in a formidable lingo, which puts new meanings to such familiar words as sublimation, transference and catharsis, and uses such arcane runes as abalienation...
Does a high brow necessarily make its owner a highbrow? Anthropologists have long and solemnly argued the relative braininess of long-headed v. roundheaded men. Now, an anthropologist who deplores the whole argument - Dr. Franz Weidenreich of the American Museum of Natural History-contends that they have been wasting their time. In a well-documented report in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, he offers a convincing case against the prevailing notion that a long head (or a high brow) denotes a superior brain. Intelligence, he concludes flatly, has nothing to do with the shape of the head...