Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through study and by work for a few weeks "with a second-rate opera company, one which traveled from village to village presenting operas." As recipient of the Paine Traveling Fellowship in Music during 1958-59, he studied at the Munich Conservatory--and even gained an offer of a job conducting an orchestra for Siemens Electric, "the General Electric of Germany...
...This company hires a regular chamber orchestra to play for its workers, as a regular part of their employee public relations." As attractive as this position may have seemed, he turned it down to accept his present dual job of conducting the HRO and teaching a graduate course...
...society dutifully digs foxholes and practices with carbines. As paid employees of the state, students have little trouble passing as long as they remain politically reliable. The school must fulfill its "production plan" and turn out so many graduates per year. Every graduate must pledge to work in whatever job the state assigns...
After the war, Schlieker was bounced between the Russians, French and Americans, eventually got the British to give him practically the same job he had under the Nazis: allocating the crumbled remains of German steel for peaceful uses. Eventually, Ruhr steelmen who had many a wartime grudge to settle initiated denazification proceedings against Schlieker, forced the British to fire...
...designer, has used the freedom from literal representation given him by the author to create a set consisting only of black curtains, a door, a few steps in necessary places, and a large fire escape that provides the characters with a refuge from one another. It is a serviceable job, but the convention that the blacks aren't there is weakened by hanging a picture on them, and the impressive fire escape occasionally hides someone's face just when we want...