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...Karajan had the help of two crack stage directors, Hans Caspar Nehar and Oskar Fritz Schuh, who had studied under Reinhardt in Berlin. They gave the production two notable Reinhardt touches. After Eurydice's funeral, the mountain wall which towers up behind the stage came alive with song; a chorus of 65 demons had been strung along its side. In the following scene, in which Orpheus arrives in Elysium, the theater's canvas roof was rolled back, revealing a starlit summer...
...mangy creature, Oskar Kokoschka, was only 24 at the time (1911), but he was already storming his shocking way to the top of the Viennese art world. "Our art is being ruined by good taste," the young Austrian rebels had said; Kokoschka had set out to save art from that ruination. He was a wild and moody young man, a writer in his spare time of wild and moody plays that set the audience to battling with umbrellas in the aisles...
...Pagodas. The son of a poor Czech goldsmith, Oskar Kokoschka briefly earned a living decorating fans and postcards, or betting U.S. tourists he could drink them under the table. His formal education was slight, "acquired through reading under my school desk. Therefore my intellect resembles a Tibetan desert, with a few pagodas here & there." During World War I, he achieved a brief respectability by joining the dragoons, because he liked the uniform. But he always kept his private pledge: never to shoot the enemy...
When Communist "action committees" seized government offices and services in the Czech coup, the lesson was not lost on neighboring Austria. Last week Socialist Minister of the Interior Oskar Helmer banned "action committees," which Communists were trying to form in Austrian unions. His police also broke up a Communist demonstration marching to Chancellor Leopold Figl's office...
Furthermore in the technical wizards lies the key to the relationship between the independently-endowed Institute and Princeton proper. Hore the interplay of staff is most evident. Hungarian-born John von Neumann secured the collaboration of Princeton's economist Oskar ("Business Cycles") Morganstern in his comprehensive mathematician's-eye view of economic phenomena. Von Neumann currently supervises construction of the Princeton calculator, and electronic digital affair differing from Harvard's in the same fashion as the University of Pennsylvania's "Eniac," which chooses a course of action rather than "thinks...