Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PONCHIELLI: LA GIOCONDA (London; 3 LPs). German tradition holds that opera is not worth listening to unless conductor, orchestra, text, music and singers all work together to produce one whole art. Italians, on the other hand, are partial to individualistic vocalism that is sensually beautiful as well as expressive. This record leans toward the Italian style. Renata Tebaldi, Robert Merrill, Marilyn Home and Carlo Bergonzi are all equipped with voluptuous voices singing this perennial "singers' opera," complete with massive arias and roof-hitting dramatics. Tebaldi, the star of them all, has compensated for the loss of the famous velvet...
...wooded hillside overlooking the Ganges River came perhaps the strangest group of pilgrims since Chaucer's in the Canterbury Tales. There, near the town of Rishikesh, 53 persons from ten nations gathered in a grove to pay their homage. Prosperous West German businessmen mingled with bearded Scandinavians. A 26-year-old Bengali interrupted his bicycle tour of the world to drop in. Mia Farrow, Frank Sinatra's absentee wife, and her brother and sister put in appearances at one time or another. And over in Bungalow No. 6, topping off the list of those seeking wisdom and truth...
...After German setbacks in early 1943, Hitler offered Stalin a deal to swap Yakov, who had resisted Nazi blandishments to defect to the German cause, for the German field marshal who surrendered at Stalingrad. Stalin turned down the proposal, replying: "You have in your hands not only my son Yakov but millions of my sons. Either you free them all or my son will share their fate." According to his Russian cellmate, it was the news that his father had refused to ransom him that drove Yakov to despair and his suicidal attempt to escape...
...provide details of how Yakov died. Apparently there were no takers; Svetlana remembers in her Twenty Letters to a Friend that Stalin knew only that Yakov had been shot, but had no official explanation of where or how. In 1945, U.S. and British intelligence teams found in Berlin the German dossier on Yakov, which consists of a letter by SS Commander Heinrich Himmler confirming Yakov's death, an autopsy report, depositions from guards and fellow prisoners, and pictures of the young man stretched out on the camp fence...
Ford has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1962. He teaches courses in French and German history and is the author of a well-known book, The Sword and the Robe...