Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television's critics, who have often accused TV of destroying the art of reading. There was no script-just the poet reading, sometimes with wonderful insight, sometimes in a poem-killing singsong. The children were seen responding, sometimes with a joy of understanding, sometimes with the bored and nervous smiles of polite scorn...
...began with a front-page article in East Berlin's Communist paper, Berliner Zeitung, timed to appear just after Bishop Dibelius' good-will tour through Nazi-nervous England and to coincide with the five-day Berlin meeting of the Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg. It quoted at length from an article by Otto Dibelius in the weekly Friede und Freude of April 9, 1933-just 68 days after Hitler had come to power. Wrote the then 52-year-old Dibelius: "The government of the Reich has finally recognized the necessity to boycott Jewish businesses in the correct...
When the expectant father was drafted by the French army, the press was equally interested-and equally confused. He landed in the infirmary with eye trouble (said Paris-Presse), with nervous trouble (said Le Figaro), with knee trouble (said he). Brigitte herself wrote a letter to Figaro deploring the "bad taste" with which it handled her husband's problem, closing her letter with "Je vous méprise [I despise you]." She changed obstetricians after the first one complained that the press would interfere with his work. One camera-laden photographer was surprised on her roof...
...quadrilaterals, the triangles . . . The listener has to get down and look up through the series, so to speak." Scored for a moderate-sized orchestra and piano (expertly played at the première by Mar-grit Weber), the piece has no continuity in the normal sense. A lean, nervous composition, it proceeds in jagged skips and jumps. Its impetus derives from its rhythms-crotchety, erratic and often as arresting as a movie played at constantly shifting speeds. "One does not find it a memorable experience-at least not yet," wrote the New York Times's Howard Taubman cautiously...
...wage freezes and mad about state aid to church schools (a touchy issue that led to the Education Minister's resignation). Rightists charge that De Gaulle is liquidating France's colonial empire with indecent haste, and disapprove of his Algerian concessions. Many Frenchmen, left to right, are nervous about De Gaulle's attitude toward the Western alliance. Appeals to la gloire are no longer enough to drown out all these objections. At the mere suggestion that Pinay might leave the Cabinet, shares on the Paris Bourse fell last week...