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...have been Munich's gaudiest, bawdiest Fasching ever. In preparation for the pre-Lenten bacchanal that traditionally enlivens the gray Bavarian midwinter, scores of halls had been decorated with tinfoil, blinking lights, papier-mache figures of fun, and corners intentionally left dark. No fewer than seven carnival princes and princesses had been named, complete with courts and shapely girl guards. All was ready for Milnchner to abandon themselves, as they always had, to a month of drinking, swiving-judges do not consider adultery grounds for divorce during Fasching-and foolery unequaled anywhere else in Europe...
...against professionalism. The F.I.S. hoped to call Brundage's bluff at Sapporo. The Austrian and French ski teams announced that they would withdraw from the games if "even one" of their members was disqualified. The flinty Brundage, now 84 and due to retire after the Summer Games in Munich, was determined not to fold. Rather than make a sham of the games by ousting 30 to 40 of the world's top skiers, he and the I.O.C. settled on one scapegoat. Just three days before the opening of the Sapporo games, and by a compromise vote...
...Munich Chamber Orchestra. Jordan Hall...
...national liberation. "This tension has only been aggravated by the inclusion of a new factor; international power politics, as the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. play their respective moves in scenario after scenario, in which the stakes are understandably seen in Israel as being extremely high. But the lesson of Munich, 1938 and the Allied sellout of Czechoslovakia has not been forgotten there, and the Israelis have learned to rely on no one but their own army, which if need be (they say) will fight and defeat even the Russians. In the final analysis, there is no alternative...
...memoir, "there is some thing fatal which makes me change addresses." The character of these years - a melancholic idyll of transience, conducted in a series of sirocco-damp villas across a classical landscape - is built into his early paintings. It was reinforced when, as an art student in Munich, he encountered the dreamlike, proto-surrealist canvases of the 19th century Swiss romantic Arnold Böcklin. By the time he settled in Turin in 1911, the meditative cast of his mind...