Word: georges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decade Buffie, now 59, has been in Phase 7 with formidable vigor. Picking a conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic has long been her prerogative, and she exercises it with the care, authority and sometimes the emotionalism of Queen Victoria choosing a Prime Minister. Her latest choice, Hungarian-born Georg Sold, last week did not act the way a proper musical prime minister should. Charging Buffie with trying to run his orchestra, he quit...
...Faust and the young Gretchen, whose seduction leads to madness and death. The Faustian quest makes for a whole kaleidoscope of moods, a whole panorama of settings. To the English-speaking world, Faust is best known, outside opera, in Marlowe's fitfully magnificent Dr. Faustus. But as Georg Brandes once noted, where Marlowe's Faust, loving power, craves omnipotence on earth, Goethe's, loving wisdom, seeks omniscience. Power inspires sharper drama than knowledge, particularly for those without the German to follow Faust's speculations and soliloquizings. Goethe's Mephistopheles, on the other hand, boasts some...
...beautiful, bouncy Princess Birgitta went to West Germany to improve her German and indulge her zest for sports. While in Munich, Birgitta, 23, who teaches gymnastics, met a young man ideally equipped to help her with both projects. A skilled gymnast himself, Germany's rugged Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, is mad for sports, will soon get his doctor's degree from the University of Munich in the fresh-air field of archaeology - which is also the lifelong hobby of Birgitta's grandfather, Sweden's King Gustaf. Later, invited to Sweden for a royal...
Today's "Danish modern" is in a sense the climax of that tradition-a simple, sane and sanitary style suitable for all. The Met show has its full share of pleasing examples: the frugally lined furniture of Kaare Klint and Arne Jacobsen, the silver of Georg Jensen, bright-hued pottery by Axel Salto and Arnold Krog, and the toys of Kay Bojessen that combine beauty with humor. But despite the riches of the present, the fact remains that Denmark's most spectacular moments of majesty come from long...
...sell for 30% to 50% less than in New York. Holland has antique auctions in Amsterdam and at Delft (from Aug. 24 to Sept. 14), specializing in porcelain, silver and paintings. In the Scandinavian countries there are savings of up to 60% on stainless-steel flatware and silver (e.g., Georg Jensen silver costs about 1½ times more in New York). Impressive bargains are at shops of Shannon, a customs-free airport. An ounce of Jean Patou Joy perfume costs $20.50 v. $28.20 in Paris, $50 in New York...