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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reality I am more my mother's son than my father's," Juscelino Kubitschek said recently. Blue-eyed Júlia, granddaughter of a German-speaking immigrant from what is now Czechoslovakia, continued to go by her maiden name after her marriage, and Juscelino grew up as Kubitschek rather than Oliveira. Now that he is famous, his countrymen rarely pronounce the name Kubitschek; he is simply "Juscelino," just as Vargas was always "Getulio...
Alabama Mama. The record includes songs from other Weill musicals that are virtually unknown in the U.S., most of them close echoes of Threepenny Opera tunes. Composer Weill (who died in the U.S. in 1950) grew lyrical, sentimental and popular in such musicals as Lady in the Dark and Lost in the Stars. But in this album he is still the unreconstructed composer of gutter nihilisms. In one ditty. Singer Lenya is a bitter, jilted girl who snarls at her indifferent lover: "Take that pipe out of your kisser, you dog!" In the chilling Berlin Requiem she sings the horrifying...
Once Mozart grew past the cute, kissable age, nobody paid any attention to him. The charming prodigy turned into a "pale, silent, colorless young man." Briefly under the patronage of Salzburg's archbishop, he ate with the servants; when he protested that he was not allowed to perform his music, he was thrown out bodily. His great love, Singer Aloysia Weber, preferred to marry a nonentity. "I did not know, you see," poor Aloysia would later mumble in her old age. "I only thought he was such a little...
...should tell Americans much of the drama that lies behind the puzzle. In different moods they deal with three major themes: 1) the treasonable folly of the intellectuals who, in the '303, took up Marxism as something between fad and faith; 2) the ugly betrayals and discontents that grew out of this era's dry rot; and 3) a crisis of faith deeper than either of these troubles-the struggle of an age estranged from God trying to find a way back to religion...
...this early novel, Maverick Orwell was gritty, growling, commonsensical and touching. He grew more bitter later on, for he never wrote a basically kinder or more human novel...