Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Making its U.S. debut in Manhattan, Munich's Bavarian State Theater performs Woyzeck in German (simultaneous translations available) with brilliant fidelity of tone-stark, spare and stinging. Into a landscape of damnation walks Woyzeck, a simple soldier, poor, puzzled, and haunted by voices and apparitions. To eke out his army pay he becomes a guinea pig for a medical fanatic who puts him on a diet of nothing but peas and exhibits him to his students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne...
...bishops of pluralistic Germany and The Netherlands spearheaded the drive for easier mixed marriages. The more conservative U.S. bishops and those of Ireland feared that easing the rules might undermine the faith of the Catholic spouse. In November 1964, on the motion of Julius Cardinal Dopfner of Munich, the Vatican Council voted 1,562 to 427 to hand over the drafting of the decree to the Pope; last week's decree was the result. Protestants responded with reserved satisfaction; a Church of England spokesman called the rules "a hopeful beginning...
...same time, he warned that China is counting on a long war in Vietnam and sees nothing to be gained from a negotiated settlement. "In Peking no less than in Washington, the desire to avoid another Munich is a major preoccupation of political leaders," Halperin said...
...girl Canada calls Olga Munsinger is alive and well," announced the Toronto Star in an exclusive story that covered most of its front page. "Her real name is Gerda Munsinger," said the story, and she had fled Communist territory as a refugee when she was 19. Tracked down in Munich by Reporter Robert Reguly, Gerda was living in a "chintzy" apartment at Ainmillerstrasse I, working as the assistant manager of a go-go cabaret and at 36 was still "tall, blonde and shapely...
TOWN MEETING OF THE WORLD (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Early Bird satellite relays a transatlantic discussion about nuclear controls between Senator Robert Kennedy in the U.S., French General Pierre Gallois in Paris, German Politician Franz Josef Strauss in Munich, and British Diplomat Lord Chalfont in Geneva...