Word: karle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karl Marx, who spent endless hours in the British Museum poring over the "blue books" of Parliamentary proceedings, could at least hope that his work would achieve some sort of permanence. There is no such consolation, for the 4,000-odd Harvard students who next week will attack another kind of blue book. Although these men will receive in return a postcard with a mark on it, in most cases they will never either see the exam booklets again or learn the instructor's reasons for the mark. The majority of the blue books, which represent a phenomenal number...
...said Mara. ¶There was bad news in Brooklyn. Johnny Podres, southpaw pitching hero of the first World Series-winning Dodger team, was classified iA, is almost certain to get "greetings" from the Government before the season starts. His loss will leave Brooklyn with only two lefthanders: Karl Spooner and Sandy Koufax...
Friedrich Adolf Sorge, the German-born music teacher and agitator who lived in the U.S., appeared as an American delegate at one of the first get-togethers of the Communist International at The Hague in 1872; he became a protege of Karl Marx. His grandson, Richard Sorge, was deeply involved in the onset and outcome of World War II, and once boasted: "If I had worked for the Allies, history would record my name in the same breath ... as Churchill and Roosevelt...
...their happiest hours last week, members were not allowed to forget that even under a Republican Administration there are dangers. Newly installed President Cola G. Parker told the delegates that "creeping socialism is now walking. A hundred years ago Karl Marx set down ten ways to Communism, e.g., from abolition of property in land to free education for all in public schools. When you check them off, you'll find we're already well on our way to the achievement of the Communist State as blueprinted by Marx...
...round out its imposing operatic catalogue. London has also released The Marriage of Figaro (4 LPs), with Hilde Gueden, Danco and Siepi, and the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Erich Kleiber, and The Magic Flute (3 LPs), with Gueden, Wilma Lipp, Simoneau and Berry, conducted by Karl Bohm. Both are first-rate performances and, as a bonus, the albums contain the complete musical scores...