Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read or write but she apparently loved Rembrandt. After her first child, she was expelled from her church. Rembrandt's Biblical subjects shifted from such as Samson Menacing His Father-in-Law to Woman Taken in Adultery. He also began to produce his magnificent landscapes, notable for their mountains, although Rembrandt never left The Netherlands, never saw a mountain...
...cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down a stage mountain on a small bier. And in dozens of other operas "Maman" Maria Savage is a familiar figure to music-loving New Yorkers. She is one of the 105 hard-drilled men & women who swarm the stage singing choruses, gesticulating vivaciously, OH-ing and AH-ing in mechanical unison...
Simultaneously 9,000,000 boys & girls of the Hitler Youth were mustered in Summer Solstice Festivals frankly pagan. Mostly these were held on the "sacred German soil" of mountain tops not too difficult of ascent. At some the apple-cheeked, wondering children were invited to cast any sins which they felt they had committed upon Nazi bonfires in which the sins would be consumed...
Striking the Solstice keynote, No. 2 Nazi Goring cried: "No church has been built so beautiful, so great, so mighty and so strong in faith as the dome of God over this mountain! . . . Let us lift up our hearts to the ideal of our Führer rather than listen to the chattering of quarrelsome clerics. ... A miracle of the Almighty has been performed through Adolf Hitler. . . . Today our shining armor is filled with strength again! . . . This is the result of this miracle...
...greater general than Napoleon and his poor judgment of men. Wu at one time had all North China in his pocket. His ally, the "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, betrayed and ruined him. Time and again Wu, sickened by China's chaos, has retired to a mountain monastery in Tibet to polish up his calligraphy and his poetry, but he has always remained a hero to the Chinese masses...