Word: hin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera turned out to be a sort of musical and dramatic palindrome.* Called Hin und zurück ("There and back"), it walked up to a tragic climax, then backed away from it like an ambassador in a throne room. Its hero comes home on his wife's birthday, gives her a present, discovers a letter from her lover, pulls a pistol, shoots her. While two ambulance surgeons carry out the body, he moans that life means nothing more to him, gulps a cup of tea and jumps out the window...
Beethoven: Abscheulicher, Wo Eilst Du Hin? from Fidelio (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Kirsten Flagstad; Victor). A masterpiece of sound-reproduction. But Wagnerian Soprano Flagstad's Beethoven is less extraordinary than her Wagner...
...Collicr's was out one week ahead of the Hin-daiburg's arrival with an article describing the speed & comfort of the ship...
...Nicholas II. Last week it was just as apt as it had been 20 years ago. And Leon Trotsky was once more a newly-landed exile in America, only this time he was in Mexico. After the Norwegian Government got tired of having him around (TIME, Dec. 28), put hin aboard a Norwegian tanker and landed him in Tampico (TIME, Jan. 18), he promptly began to receive appropriate honors as World Revolutionist No. 1. The Republic of Mexico is ruled by a political party whose orators refer to themselves with enthusiasm as "The Revolution! "* Mexico is today the only major...
...curious from the Manhattan smartchart. RIDDLES OF THE GOBI DESERT-Sven Hedin-Button ($5). More of the same oy the author of Across the Gobi Desert. THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION, First Phase - Ernest K. Lindley - Viking ($2.50). A Washington correspondent analyzes the New Deal. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice Hin-dus-Smith & Haas ($3). More about New Russia by the author of Humanity Uprooted and Red Bread. INSIDE THE ATOM-John Langdon-Davies-Harper ($2.50). By the author of The Future of Nakedness. WHAT EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT MONEY-edited by G. D. H. Cole -Knopj ($3). By a group...