Word: george
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...reason that Karajan, Karl Bohm, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Georg Solti and the other gerontocrats who dominated the musical scene after World War II were able to last so long was that there was simply no seasoned competition: the conflict killed off a whole generation of Europeans and some Americans, from whose ranks their successors might ordinarily have emerged. Partly as a result, the repertoire stagnated as Karajan and his contemporaries grew increasingly out of touch...
...best-known propagator of the theory that history has an "end," meaning its fulfillment in an ideal political system, was Karl Marx. He believed the contradictions of all previous societies would be resolved by the emergence of a Communist utopia. Marx borrowed his concept from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who argued that history would culminate, as Fukuyama puts it, at a moment "in which a final, rational form of society and state became victorious...
...room for a music director," said Previn. The startling announcements fueled a flurry of who-goes-where speculation that had already begun in Paris, where the new Opera de la Bastille is seeking an artistic director to replace the fired Daniel Barenboim (who has been named Sir Georg Solti's successor with the Chicago Symphony), and in Manhattan, where the New York Philharmonic must replace Zubin Mehta, 53, who has said he will leave...
...charge of Parisian opera. Zubin Mehta of the New York Philharmonic said, "I will not go there under these circumstances." Herbert von Karajan, the grand old czar of the conducting world, declared that his plans for the Bastille were "null and void." Also lining up behind Barenboim: Sir Georg Solti of the Chicago Symphony and Carlo Maria Giulini, formerly of the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
...most recent controversy came to a climax last week, when John Paul triumphed over strong local resistance and appointed Georg Eder, a conservative village priest, as Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria. It was the latest act in a long-running drama. Last month the Pope named an equally unpopular conservative as Archbishop of Cologne, West Germany, Europe's richest diocese. In January 1988 the Pontiff shocked the Irish clergy by picking a conservative metaphysician as Dublin's Archbishop. A few months before that, he had installed a longtime Vatican official as Primate of Brazil, where many bishops condone the leftist liberation...