Word: karst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down, Sing Down. Helen's mother, something of a local concert singer herself, sent 13-year-old Helen to a friend of her own childhood, Madame Vetta Karst, the most exacting voice teacher in St. Louis. A birdlike little woman with an uncontrollable temper, Madame Karst screeched and nagged, threw pillows at her pupils. One day Helen sobbed, "I can never satisfy you!" "When you can satisfy me you won't need me any more," snapped Madame Karst. She taught Traubel to sing "down" so her tones would go over; to drop her jaw as far as possible...
...month Helen Traubel paid Madame Karst $5 for each lesson. After that the teacher refused to take any pay, though Helen went to her almost daily for 17 years. Says Helen: "That was her way of controlling me. She was a damned intelligent teacher." Madame Karst, still giving lessons today at 85, says that Traubel always "sang as if she were alone in the room...
...young. "I knew I wasn't ready. If the prophet Moses had come down and asked me to sing at the Met I would have said, 'You run your business, I'll run mine.' " She went back to St. Louis and Madame Karst...
Protection of the People. After the defeat of Germany, Tito, the proletarian proconsul, completely supplanted the pseudodemocrat. On the numerous new holidays he decreed, peasants in rich, fertile Croatia, villagers in hot, dry Dalmatia or highlanders in the barren Karst Mountains assembled in the public squares (under rigorous orders to display "sincere devotion") and chanted: "Tito belongs to us, we belong to Tito...