Word: minna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bowels, or, as he called them, his Konrad). He worked prodigiously for nine months of the year, received patients from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with only an hour out for lunch, took little longer over dinner with his family (wife, three sons, three daughters and sister-in-law Minna Bernays*) before burying himself in the task of assembling data and writing down his theories. He regularly worked until...
...medal presentations, revived after a 20-year lapse, have been made possible this year by the family of Mrs. Minna B. Wolff...
...when he settled down in Greenwich Village, Max hit his bohemian crescendo. A lusty, limpidly handsome man. he attracted women by the scores (at least two of his castoff in amoratas committed suicide). By 1935, though, Bodenheim was no longer in vogue. Sales of his murky verse (Minna and Myself) and erotic novels (Replenishing Jessica) dwindled away, and he sank gradually into the bleary stupor of the alcoholic. He flapped disconsolately around the Village resting up periodically in the Bellevue alcoholic ward, sleeping in gutters, hallways and subways (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). On a rainswept night three years...
Nothing but Animals. First prize went to Minna Harkavy's Two Men, a dead-serious head & shoulders study of two long-nosed, lantern-jawed characters, facing each other in solemn agreement. Miss Harkavy, 56, spent more than a year chipping, brushing and sandpapering the scabrous surface of her cast stone sculpture, explained that it represented "communion, maybe between two citizens of widely separated lands...
Articulation. As Editor Burk sees it, there were four times in self-centered Richard Wagner's life when he "really lost his head over a woman." His love for Minna was violent, "but because it had no basis in artistic sympathy could not last." He was drawn to two others but "the circumstance .. . tore them apart." (The precise circumstance: they were both married.) But such circumstances did not stop Wagner from running off with the wife of his friend Hans von Bülow, who conducted the first performance of Tristan. Cosima von Bülow, illegitimate daughter...