Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Germany's real cool cats were concerned, those Communist cubes over at the Ministry of Culture must have flipped. The music for the Lipsi, the German Democratic Republic's newly authorized, ideologically correct song-and-dance craze, sounded like a South American nightmare with a boogie beat. It was nothing but a hopped-up minuet in 6/4 time -bogue*, man, real bogue.-The dance steps themselves looked like a mixed-up rumba, laced with old-fashioned open steps that led to a kind of shimmying amble-ticky, man, real ticky...
...render his songs fit for the igth century drawing room, Thomson hired the best poets and composers of the day-Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Haydn, Beethoven. Between 1806 and 1818 Beethoven set more than 100 songs for Thomson for an estimated ?550. In this album the towering German genius is improbably linked to such folksy titles as Faithful Johnie and The Lovely Lass of Inverness. All the tunes have a willowy charm, and occasional instrumental passages sound unmistakably vigorous echoes of Beethoven's more familiarly muscular style...
...from his wealthy banker-father. By 1924 he had enough to establish his own museum in Trieste, wangled a small subsidy from the Italian government. In 1937 he bought a strategically located house in Trieste where he could photograph any future bombardment. It came when the Allies attacked the German garrison of the city in the closing months of World War II. "I had to wait seven years," he gloats, "but it was worth...
...recent years put all his savings into the development of a two-cylinder, 40-h.p. single-seater not much bigger than the dragonfly for which it was named. Last week De Bernardi heard that a group of aviation experts had collected at a Roman airport to watch some German pilots demonstrate a new light plane. Hopping on his motor scooter, he zipped out to the field, took to the air in his Dragonfly, stunted breathtakingly for 15 minutes. "You can't beat him," said an onlooking friend. "He's got the heart of a 20-year...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). Unwed motherhood gets the winsome-smile treatment from celebrated Actress Maria Schell...