Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DELIUS: PIANO CONCERTO (Decca). As a young man, Delius weny out from England to spend a year managing his father's plantation in Florida, and snatches of Negro spirituals seem to echo in the dreamy sequences of his only piano concerto. Playing with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra under William Strickland, Marjorie Mitchell gives a full-blooded performance of the seldom-heard romantic work...
...TIME'S publisher, has been roaming the world and reporting on its major problems. His assignments have varied from the Common Market to the turmoil of Southeast Asia. After his trips, Scott, a former TIME foreign correspondent, lectures on his findings in four languages (English, Russian, French and German) to business and academic audiences around the world...
...another example of what appears to be a more mellow Communist policy, East Germany last week freed, before the end of their allotted terms, four Americans who had been in East German prisons for more than a year. Three of them-Frederick Matthews, 24, Moses Herrin, 26, and Mary Battle, 26-had been convicted of the once unpardonable offense of assisting persons who wanted to flee the Iron Curtain. The fourth, William Lovett, 26, was imprisoned in May, 1965 for his part in a serious auto crash in Leipzig...
...president of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and a former secretary to the Eisenhower Cabinet, who has lately spent considerable time arranging freedom for other Communist captives. He won the release last March of John Van Altena, a young American who had also been convicted of assisting an East German family trying to flee to the West...
...directed Funeral in Berlin, a clumsy, convoluted, illegitimate offspring of The Ipcress File in which agent Harry Palmer, again played by Michael Caine, proves a powerful bore. The direction is admittedly undistinguished, but the script to Funeral really takes the cake: the spy sets out to get an East German big-wig out of East Berlin; naturally the unsuspecting audience assumes this is what the picture is about, but around the middle, part one gets neatly resolved and the plot begins anew, now dealing with the absurdly complex and not-worth-figuring-out intertwinings of Israeli intelligence people...