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Word: petri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday, 10 p.m.: Johansen arrives in Manhattan, barely making a 6 p.m. flight from Madison. On the plane, he has made his first real study of the score. He has had plenty of experience. Trained in Berlin by Egon Petri, he played concerts in Europe for four years before moving to the U.S. in 1929. He has made five previous New York appearances, notably a 1966 performance of Busoni's challenging Piano Concerto. But now the magnitude of what he has undertaken overwhelms him. At a hotel, he recites "a prayer to Ludwig for help," and drops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: Diary of a Miracle | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...film her new ghost-chiller A Quiet Place in the Country, was far from quiet. In fact, there seemed to be more shades underfoot than on the windows, which mysteriously slammed shut while chairs rattled unaided across floors, drawers floated out of place, and cameras smashed inexplicably. Director Elio Petri swore he bumped into-or through-a long-deceased ancestor of the villa's owner on the staircase one night. All those unnerving incidents soon had the stagehands muttering, and production lagged five days behind schedule until Vanessa and Co-Star Franco Nero, her constant companion since they made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 14, 1968 | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

...Petri's study group on state politics at the Institute of Politics will meet at 1 p.m. today at 78 Mt. Auburn Street. Mr. Steinbrunner's group on campaign decision-making will meet at 4 p.m. today at Holyoke Center 938. Yesterday's CRIMSON was wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Institute of Politics | 2/8/1968 | See Source »

...effective if it does not become politically active? The PBH volunteer through personal communication certainly does achieve positive results for the individual. Mark Petri '69, a member of the PBH executive board, said "The political ideal should take precedence over the social-philanthropic ideal -- while we are helping the individual kid, we're not changing the society in which he lives." He added, "I think PBH has a potential power base within the system which could be used effectively in political terms...

Author: By Didi Rosen, | Title: Charity Basket' Ethic Dumped for Activism In PBH's Re-Evaluation | 12/2/1967 | See Source »

...Most black students either have no energy to expand beyond adjusting to the Harvard dsituation or are already so angry that PBH will not attract them," said Barnes. Another PBH executive, Petri, expanded on this to say that "while the middle class Harvard student is used to minor change and will accept it whether he wants more or not, a student coming from an environment where things are blatantly wrong will demand changes in the entire system." These students are turning to SDS and Afro...

Author: By Didi Rosen, | Title: Charity Basket' Ethic Dumped for Activism In PBH's Re-Evaluation | 12/2/1967 | See Source »

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