Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Italian Communist Party organ Unita printed a dispatch from its Budapest correspondent suggesting that if the U.S. would request it, Hungary's puppet Premier Janos Kadar would be happy to grant Mindszenty a safe-conduct allowing him to leave both the legation and Hungary. To these officially inspired Communist overtures, there was a noticeable absence of response by both the Vatican and his U.S. hosts...
That long, extraordinary career began in the small, dusty Catalan town of Vendrell, south of Barcelona, where Casals' father was a church organist. By the time the boy was eleven, he had mastered the organ, piano and violin and had turned to the cello and the music of Bach (later he was to begin each of his days by playing a few minutes of Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall...
Shining in the sunlight that flooded the nave towered the figure that dominated the occasion (opposite). Gentle and merciful, yet awesome in its serene majesty, the figure stands 16 ft. tall, high above the floor of the nave, resting against a concrete cylinder that houses the echo organ and at the apex of a concrete parabolic arch that springs from the ground and spans the nave. In the great tradition of Byzantine religious art, the figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful...
Wild Blue Pegasus. In San Antonio, Lackland Air Force Base trainees jumped at the chance to spend ten of the required 28 hours of calisthenics either on horseback or roller skating to organ music at an air-conditioned rink...
Germany, in 1923, is in the grip of dizzy inflation, so Ludwig plays the organ for church services at the asylum for a good Sunday dinner and yearns for enough billions of marks to buy a new suit. Because his mother was constantly ill, the girls at a local brothel had seen to it that he did his schoolwork. At 18, when he was about to be shipped off to the trenches, he presented himself as a customer, and the sentimental, motherly prostitutes packed him off to the front a virgin. He is welcome now, but he seldom...