Word: municher
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...never allow him to succeed. But he must have known also that they would be forced to use the only powers they can be sure of-deceit, murder, and subjugation-to keep their empire from crumbling at their feet. Perhaps now the "peace at any price" people will see Munich revisited, and come to realize that America must stand firm at the frontiers of freedom...
During the 30's, newly-independent Czechoslovakia turned her face westward as well; to meet the Fascist threat she signed mutual defense pacts with England and France. Then Munich happened, in 1938, and once again Russia became the only recourse. Russian troops liberated Papousek's nation in 1945, and three years later the Czechs democratically elected a communist president...
...heard of mad King Ludwig II, the eccentric scion of the Wittelsbachs, who dotted Bavaria's picturesque hilltops with an insanely extravagant clatch of castles, pavilions, hideaways and other architectural follies in the 1870s and 1880s. Was he totally deranged? Not according to Dr. Michael Petzet, 35, the Munich art historian who oversees Bavaria's state-run castle-museums (including Ludwig's). Petzet, pointing out that Ludwig was the patron of Richard Wagner, sees the king as "a creator in his own right, someone who aimed to fulfill what Wagner understood as total...
...dramatic display of 907 paintings, drawings, costumes, stage models, furniture and other rarely seen bric-a-brac commissioned and closely supervised in their execution by Ludwig for his many projects. The lot is installed for the summer in a wing of the Wittelsbach family palace, formally known as the Munich Residence. Selected from Ludwig's three castles, from vaults and state theatrical museums, and sumptuously installed in velvet-hung, stagily lit galleries, their magpie splendors represent the culmination of Ludwig's eclectic vision...
...Inside, the displays begin with stage models for Wagner's operas. From the age of twelve, Ludwig was enthralled by the work of the composer, whose fascination with medieval legend he shared. Upon his accession to the throne, he summoned Wagner from Stuttgart, installed him in a Munich suburban house, bankrolled the first productions of his most famous operas. Atop the Munich Residence he built a huge greenhouse with a lily pond. Floating in a barge clad as Lohengrin, he watched slides of the Venusberg cast on the walls by a projector, while a hidden orchestra played Tannh...