Word: nichts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, wags expressed their feeling that the music was derivative in a German pun: "Nicht von einem sondern von anderen" (not by one but by others). By the "others," music lovers meant chiefly Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. But, added one critic: "Mussorgsky never wrote his principal themes for the bass drum...
...Weiss Nicht." An angular, middle-aged woman, who had been weaving through the crowd from sidewalk to curb in a futile effort to keep her ill-shod feet dry, suddenly sighted the twelve men. She stopped in her tracks, stared wide-eyed at them for a full minute. Then she dropped her threadbare market bag, flew across the street in front of a lumbering, charcoal-burning truck and threw herself with a gasping cry upon the third prisoner. Prisoners and passers-by paused and gaped dumbly at the two Rodinesque figures fingering the backs of each other's rough...
...imprisonment if they were caught by the British coastal forces. A group of refugees took over. Late that night, behind a tattered canvas awning, a baby was born, the ninth on the voyage. The German doctor, one of three on board, whispered to the mother: "Wir können nicht sterben" (we cannot die). Two more babies would arrive before the ship reached its destination. The doctors wondered what nationality they could claim...
...busy with the erection of roadblocks, laying mines, stringing road cables to decapitate drivers and sniping at American soldiers. Then when they were certain that the Americans were there to stay, waving white flags and vociferously claiming to anyone foolish enough to listen that they were never Nazi. "Ich nicht Nazi" were the first words you heard on entering a town. Now these people have the whole world sorry for them. They aren't getting enough to eat. Neither are the Greeks, Dutch, Belgians, Polish, Yugoslavians, Chinese and others who have fought on our side. What kind of allies...
...Rosenkavalier. She regrets that Strauss did not oppose Naziism more actively, but says: "Shall one expect that a great artist is also a great person? I know artists with lousy characters. It is strange that the gift is given sometimes to a shell that is not worthy of it, nicht...