Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, Miss Brucher was in the race for a seat as the Bonn Parliament. Since 1947 when the Free Democrats invited her to run successfully for the Munich City Council she has told teachers, students and ward committees that there should be more young blood in Germany's infault government...
...started off by barnstorming Munich. During one address, a spectator demanded "Why don't you go home to your kitchen and cook-pot?" Miss Brucher constantly campaigned that women, ousted from politics under Hitler, should enter the government field...
After the ballots were counted and she had lost, she found she could still change her mind, and sailed for this country, temporarily giving up her post on the Munich City Council. If the present government falls, however, she will be forced to return to Germany before the school year here is complete...
...this dear little man," but Bidault had been almost the only one in Charles de Gaulle's postliberation entourage with spunk enough to argue against the stiff-backed general. Son of a devoutly Catholic, well-to-do insurance broker, Georges Bidault had sided with the Spanish Loyalists, denounced Munich and become a top executive in the French underground. Before he married in 1945, he seemed to have almost no private life. Said one of his friends: "If you saw a man sitting in the sun at a cafe with his legs sprawled out, drinking wine and reading La Croix...
...early youth, precocious, Munich-born Richard Strauss had written under the influence of Mozart and Brahms. But after about 1885, Strauss's contemporaries called his work "psychopathic music." They railed against the brazen dissonances in his huge, Wagnerian tone poems (Don Quixote, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Death and Transfiguration, etc.), the savage horrors of his operas Salome and Elektra, his general lack of taste in composition. But no one could overlook his genius: his unique gifts as an orchestrator, his penetrating power for illuminating character and for describing anything from the zany antics of Don Quixote to the bestiality...