Word: mir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mir bist du schön-Please let me explain...
...mir bist du schön means that you're grand...
...into the pockets of Secunda and Jacobs. Secunda's mother was so certain that God was thus punishing her for her sins that she went to a synagogue and remained there for an entire day, fasting and praying for forgiveness. But in the 24 years that followed, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön went on relentlessly inflating the fortunes of others. People have bought 250,000 copies of Bei Mir sheet music and 2,500,000 Bei Mir records-for a total gross...
Prints - especially in signed, limited editions - were one answer to the poor man's status search. Signed color lithographs by Dubuffet and Braque sold for $45 and $75 at the University of Chicago show. New York's Juster Gallery offered such signed works as a Miró color etching for $90, a Picasso poster for $75. The Associated American Artists started with Raphael Soyer at $14.75, and its unsigned prints included a $19.50 Manet, a $32.50 Chagall, a $40 Renoir, a $70 Cézanne, a $190 Rouault...
...U.S.S.R., in addition to doing his own creative work, Simonov is also an active and very important member of the Union of Writers. As literary editor of the Union magazine, Novyi Mir, he was among the first who read and refused to publish Doctor Zhivago. "There were two reasons why I didn't like the book. First, it seemed to me that Pasternak considered the February revolution a good thing and that he thought the October revolution was evil. I think the October revolution was a good thing. So, from the standpoint of ideas, I disagreed. Then, the fact...