Word: karl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin had much to celebrate; he also had much to remember. When he was born, the son of a drunken Georgian shoemaker and his peasant wife, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Karl Marx was a penniless scribbler, and the world seemed to find it a good deal easier to tell the difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with...
...greatest conductor, fiery Hungarian Artur Nikisch (1889-93) taught it how to "poetize," and perhaps he taught too well; at a rehearsal in 1904 Guest Conductor Richard Strauss growled: "You play that finely; but a little too finely. I want some roughness here." The Berlin Opera's Karl Muck (1906-08, 1912-18), wrote one critic, gave the orchestra "a living voice...
Dean Bernice Brown Cronkhite of the Radcliffe graduate school is chairman of the committee on awards. Committee members include President Jordan and Professors Gordon W. Allport, Arlie V. Bock, Stanley Cobb, '10, Alden B. Dawson, Leigh Hoadley, Karl Sax, and Edwin B. Wilson...
Harvard's Goethe Bicentennial Celebration draws to a close with a talk by Karl Vietor, Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at 8 p.m. tonight in Fogg Large Room...
...University's Goethe Bicentennial Celebration ends this week with two lectures at Fogg Museum. Edwin Redslob, Rector of the Free University of Berlin, will talk tonight at 8 p.m. on "Goethe and the Graphic Arts," and Karl Vietor, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, will discuss "Goothe's Concept of Life" in German, Thursday...