Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking from notes he took during the time he conducted "The Magic Flute" at the Metropolitan Opera House, the short, stocky, Berlin-born conductor declared that only recently has the genius of Mozart been fully appreciated...
...Mozart is the greatest musical dramatic genius before us today," Bruno Walter, musical advisor of the New York Philharmonic Society, yesterday told over 300 people gathered in the Kirkland House Common Room by the invitation of the Food Relief Committee...
...dramatic truthfulness is an unique manisfestation of human genius," Walter stated, but like Goethe's, it is not a revolutionary but a mere "harmonious type of human genius that in every new work makes a conquest in a new sphere, in a new phase of superhuman creative form...
...their fashion, Pepi's counterparts in London (Hugh Shaw), Rio de Janeiro (José Gallo), Cairo (Abdel Basset El Taher) and Shanghai (the three Wongs) are equally adept. Shaw, a small, taciturn, greying Englishman whose way with automobiles approaches genius, will be long remembered by the squads of photographers he maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling...
Rita Hayworth, through work at last in a picture written, produced and directed by husband Orson Welles (co-star), said she was also through with Orson. Explained Rita: "I just can't take his genius any more...