Word: ingeborg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, Norway arrested and tried a woman for espionage in 1965, after a KGB defector had told how Soviet intelligence in the 1950s secured information from "a female employee [in the Moscow embassy] who enjoyed Russian male companionship." But the authorities picked up the wrong woman -one Ingeborg Lygren-and had to pay her $5,700 in false-arrest damages, while Gunvor Haavik continued her career...
Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans (Birgit Finnilä, contralto; Ingeborg Springer, mezzo-soprano; Elly Ameling, soprano; Annelies Burmeister, contralto;. Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Vittorio Negri, conductor. 3 LPs; Philips; $23.94). Vivaldi composed his 1716 oratorio for his students at the Ospedale della Pietá. the Venetian orphanage where he taught music. The subject was a bloody one for schoolgirls: after beguiling the barbarian commander with words and wine, Judith seizes his sword and chops off his head. The score is sumptuous, propelled by the Baroque master's typical unflagging vitality. In this recording both male and female solo roles are sung...
...eine Cocktailparty in Munich two years ago, a bookseller complained about the prevalence of Americanisms to Fritz Neske, an author, and his wife Ingeborg, a linguist. The Neskes decided to catalogue the terms that had become common. Their recently published Dictionary of English and American Expressions in German (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 314 pages; $1.85) contains 3.000 of them. Sales of the dictionary have been brisk, even though it has not yet made die Bestsellerliste...