Word: german
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Harvard audiences have heard Borges recite Latin, French and German extemporaneously and translate all into flawless English. He quotes as readily from The Divine Comedy as from Beowulf. He has taught graduate students Anglo-Saxon, lectured at the University of Texas, made a hobby of Old Norse poetry and extended his metaphysical range to Egypt to Arabia to China...
...contemporary fame of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi German Protestant theologian who was executed in 1945 for taking part in the plots against Hitler, rests primarily on the Letters and Papers from Prison he wrote to friends and family. In these cryptic messages, most of them smuggled out of his cell in Berlin's Tegel Prison, Bonhoeffer outlined a new kind of secular theology for a "world come of age" that has become the axiomatic premise for post-Christian thought. Last week a new cache of Bonhoeffer letters came to light-revealed by the woman to whom...
That prospective performance compares with a 4% growth last year, which was the worst since the Common Market's first full year. Earlier this year, EEC experts predicted a slowdown of lesser proportions. The German recession, however, proved more durable than anticipated; despite recent frantic efforts to revive business, a fifth of Germany's industrial capacity stands idle. This year, the country's gross national product is expected to drop about...
...minutely supervised the spare, expressionistic sets designed by German-born Günther Schneider-Siemssen, a longtime Von Karajan protégé. The extraordinary lighting design, ranging for the most part from grey to basic black, was Von Karajan's own. The cast was handpicked, and the hand was his. He guided the Met's orchestra through what amounted to a graduate seminar on Wagnerian sonority, galvanizing that frequently scraggly ensemble into a pliant, rich tonal fabric...
...Karajan's Ring, which is being mounted with a $500,000 grant from Eastern Airlines, may or may not end the current Wagnerian decline at the Met-and Manager Rudolf Bing's well-known distaste for the German master. In the 1890-91 season, 39 of 70 Met performances were Wagner; in 1965-66, the last season at the old house, ten out of 212. Lacking the heroic singers to do justice to his demands, Wagner could return to new glory on the shoulders of a heroic conductor...