Word: gunther
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...airplane factory outside Cairo to decide to drive 300 miles across the Libyan Desert to the remote Siwa Oasis, site of Roman temple ruins and the classical oracle of Jupiter Ammon, consulted by Alexander the Great. It was to be a week-long vacation. The group included Gunther Wanderscheck, Reinhold Rimm, and Hans Hauser, together with Cairo Salesman Klaus Böhm, and his wife Gudrun. They took two Volkswagens, a sedan and a Micro Bus, and Gudrun, who took along her camera, snapped the others clowning about before they all left...
...food and water, they decided to cut across the unmarked desert. The going was a lot slower than they expected, and the Volks began to falter. Suddenly they realized that what had begun as a search for ancient gods might turn into a grim Götterdämmerung. Noted Gunther Wanderscheck, 33, on a scrap of paper dated three days after they left Cairo: "Our condition is very bad. We have only eight liters [about two gallons] of water and five cans of mango juice." Then the little VW stalled, and eight miles farther on the Micro Bus bogged down...
Socialists & Schlag. Vienna's working classes used to be among the Continent's most militant (both Trotsky and Stalin studied there), but with full employment and extensive welfare benefits. Dr. Gunther Nenning, editor of Austria's intellectual weekly Forum, reports that today the proletariat "is taking on characteristics of the bourgeoisie." It is common to hear such refined expressions as "küss' die Hand," (I kiss your hand), or "hab' die Ehre" (I have the honor) for salutations in butcher shops. The Communist vote has dropped to virtually nothing, while the Socialist Party, which...
Camped for six months in a dark den called the Five Spot, Coleman gave vent to a new style of atonal jazz, a free association of angular and seemingly disjointed sounds that brought curious jazzmen flocking to the club. Many, like Modernist Composer Gunther Schuller, found it "the first realization of all that is merely implicit in the music of Charlie Parker." Leonard Bernstein cried, "Genius!" Composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson also came and were conquered. But others shared Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's reaction: "Are you cats serious?" Some even dismissed Coleman's music as "anti-jazz...
...twenty years from now there will no longer be the split between jazz and classical music" that now exists, Gunther Schuller told a Lowell House audience yesterday afternoon...