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Even when the evidence seems to refute such arguments, Chapman pursues the Dreyfus case like a detective, tries it like a judge, and breathes life into it like a good novelist. If his book sometimes lacks the courtroom dramatics of Captain Dreyfus by Hungarian Journalist Nicholas Halasz (TIME, Aug. 1), it is because Chapman is busy with a more telling drama on a larger stage-the kind of France in which a Dreyfus case could happen...
...Pundit Steed joined the Times in 1896, served as foreign correspondent in European capitals, was named editor by eccentric Press Tycoon Lord Northcliffe, in an effort to boost the paper's sagging influence. A respected confidant and adviser of world statesmen. Steed predicted the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was among the first to warn of the menace of Hitler's Germany, acted as chief BBC broadcaster on world affairs during World...
...atmosphere"), other European critics also raved. After he reached the U.S. in 1948, he first landed a job with the Dallas Symphony and soon after with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. U.S. critics discovered his excellence on records (Period). He was the only principal player Conductor Reiner, a fellow Hungarian, took with him when he moved from the Met to the Chicago Symphony three years...
...City Opera's first general director was Hungarian-born Laszlo Halasz, who spent eight years getting it established, while sidestepping a series of attacks brought on by his toplofty manner. The last arose after his baton flew out of his hand and struck a player. Able Conductor Halasz was sacked in 1951 and replaced by Austrian-born Joseph Rosenstock who staged a world premiere (Copland's The Tender Land) that failed, a New York premiere (Walton's Troilus and Cressida) that succeeded, two gloomy but interesting U.S. stage premieres (Von Einem's The Trial and Bartok...
...book's page 7, Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt is involved: "The burning eyes of the passionate Hungarian studied her for a long moment, and it seemed that the decision to possess her was made in that instant. 'As an artist you have no equal,' she said tritely, as he held her hand in a fervent and prolonged grasp . . . Only a few hours later, her body stripped of the clothes that hid its superb beauty, Lola sought to achieve the heights of passion which Liszt so obviously enjoyed...