Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German consul for cultural relations in San Francisco in 1968, I asked Ansel Adams [Sept. 3] if he would like to make an artistic tour of West Germany as a guest of the federal government. His answer was remarkable and convincing: "I have never left the U.S. except for a glimpse over the Mexican and Canadian fences. I have done that only because the nature, the landscape is the same on both sides of the frontier. I am afraid to visit Europe, to see all your ancient towns, all your fairy-tale castles because, as I understand, all the landscape...
...most overtly political story of In Plain Russian, in fact, is the least successful. "A Circle of Friends" depicts Stalin and his top advisors on the eve of the German invasion in June 1941 as a pack of drooling children barely able to complete a crossword puzzle, let alone manage a nation. Voinovich's farce bludgeons where a lighter hand might better serve Western audiences weaned on Animal Farm's model of anti-Stalinist allegory...
...this is Friday, that must be the touring Cleveland Orchestra that Lorin Maazel, 49, is conducting at London's Royal Festival Hall. Maazel, who is fluent in English, French and German, also works with the French Orchestre National and has agreed as well to direct and conduct at Vienna's hallowed State Opera. When he begins his pit stops there in 1982, Maazel will face the unusually intense musical politics that have made Vienna the bane of conductors. So great is the municipal love of music that even the orchestra members, drawn from the Vienna Philharmonic...
...German settlers McKay takes with him to the Kansas Territory make music boxes that play Old Dog Tray. The young wife McKay takes with him suffers from underwork, a cold heart and a galloping case of pre-feminism. She also dislikes the residents of her husband's hives. Catherine "knew that the bees were women. They were dignified, dangerous, purposeful women . . . Their lives were all work, all women's work-housekeeping and foraging. They spent their lives in domestic boredom...
...landed in a dark corner of the Rhein-Main airfield; Pompidou's jet was already waiting, and we were airborne again within ten minutes of landing. Walters claimed that West German cooperation was speeded up by their belief, encouraged by him, that the passenger was a secret girlfriend of Pompidou's. I have often wondered why he thought the waiting ground personnel could have been fooled about the sex of the passenger...