Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gates of Vienna. But now it was the Habsburgs' turn. Retreating, the Turks left their coffee sacks behind, and the Austrians took to mocha with the same passion they later devoted to waltzing along the Danube. In Austria's legendary coffeehouses, a great culture grew--from Mozart (who, alas, did not write the Coffee Cantata; that was Bach) to Kafka and Freud. The Habsburg empire was, however, doomed, battered by the French in the 18th century and trounced by the chicory-gulping Prussians in the 19th century...
Madama Butterfly, Puccini 21 Don Giovanni, Mozart 16 La Boheme, Puccini 15 Rigoletto, Verdi 12 Aida, Verdi 11 La Traviata, Verdi 11 Carmen, Bizet 9 Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart 9 Die Fledermaus, Strauss 9 Die Zauberflote, Mozart...
Yale is part of a great family of second-bests--of institutions that almost tasted the fruits of glory but came up just short. Yale is the Salieri to our Mozart, the American Basketball Association to our National Basketball Association, the Betamax to our VHS. Yale is much like the now deceased Soviet Union--a place that had lots of tanks and other superficial signs of strength, but that, on the inside, was really a rotting carcass of mediocrity...
...Kugel: I only listen to one thing, Mozart's Flute Quartet in D Major (K. 285). I have four or five different versions of it, which I alternate. Kishlansky: Old rock n' roll...
...Brustein: Mozart and Shubert and Bach; vintage Simon and Garfunkel; and The Grateful Dead, when I'm in the company...