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...overriding trait that makes Rubinstein percolate is rooted in his spirit. He is a hopelessly rosy-eyed, warm-blooded, bighearted, card-carrying romantic. On the Old World side, his pianistic pedigree dates back to some of the great masters and to the very origins of the instrument. Violinist Josef Joachim, Brahms's great friend, was Rubinstein's mentor. Rubinstein got his piano training from Karl Heinrich Earth, who was taught by the man (Franz Liszt), who was taught by the man (Karl Czerny), who was taught by the man?Ludwig van Beethoven...
...eight, he was playing in Berlin under the sharp eye of Josef Joachim, who soon brought the Wunderkind to Barth. At eleven, he played Mozart's Concerto in A Major with the Berlin Symphony. In 1906, thanks to the influence of a U.S. music critic who had heard him play at Paderewski's Swiss villa, the young pianist was signed for a tour of the U.S. It was a dud. At his debut in Carnegie Hall, the critics dismissed Rubinstein for being, as one put it, "half-baked?not a prodigy, not an adult." Those were the days when...
...Professor Hans-Joachim Martini, director of West Germany's Federal Geological Survey, the basic idea still seemed sound, so he cleverly worked out a new version of Djordjevitch's plan. For melting snow, Martini substituted electric pumps to compress the air. For the Karst caves, he substituted abandoned salt or potash mines surrounded by nonporous rock that is easy to seal. Cheaper electricity is available during off-peak (usually early morning) hours when the demand is low, and Martini figured it could be used to pump air into the mines. The compressed air could be released during hours...
...their clothes. The deadly gloom of East Berlin's Unter den Linden has lately been relieved by a couple of fashionable boutiques and some six-story buildings of aluminum and glass. The ponderous, ugly neoclassicism of the Stalinist era is shunned by the city's chief architect, Joachim Mather, 40, who draws his inspiration from Manhattan's Lever House. But to step into glistening West Berlin is still not only to step into another country; it is almost to visit another planet...
...Joachim Bumke, professor of German, will leave for the Free University in Berlin after teaching two courses in the Summer School. A permanent professor will be appointed to replace Bumke in his speciality, medieval German...