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Jacques Offenbach's score for La Belle Helene has probably never been equalled by anybody except Offen-bach. It is "music so French," said James Agate, "that it needed a German Jew to write it:" irrepressible and irresistible music, subtly mischievous, knowing, deft, and inexhaustibly high-spirited. It alone is worth the price of admission to the Arts Center, which is very fortunate since it alone is nearly all that this venture has to recommend...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Helen of Troy | 8/4/1960 | See Source »

...GUIDANCE-Das Senden Offen mit ein Pattenbacker und Finger Gekrossen Schteerenwerke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ein Kleines Jokenskribbling | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Hand me my dulcy-more," 62-year-old "Aunt" Ellen Fields will chirp to a visitor at her house near Viper. "This thang hain't much good any more. Ah put in a new fret-just took a pin and bit the head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Wild Birds Do Whistle | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Offenbach: Gaité Parisienne Suite (London Philharmonic, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia; 4 sides). Sparkling anthology of some of Composer Offen bach's best Second Empire hits. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Record Boom | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

From the New York State College of Agriculture came a 32-page pamphlet of recipes and menus, prodigal with suggestions. The list of edible weeds was enthusiastically expanded: milkweed, stinging nettle, amaranth pigweed, sow thistle, skunk cabbage ("cooking reduces offen-siveness"), toothwort, hog peanut, yellow goatsbeard, spatterdock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: A la Nebuchadnezzar | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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