Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nazism is nowhere deader than in West Berlin; the city has elected Jewish widow, whose husband and children died in the concentration camps, as a delegate to the Bundesrepublik's parliament. the miniscule German Party's anti-Semitic rally of a few months ago drew immediate and hearted public protest...
Steaming with indignation, Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab himself stalked into Ilyichev's office to protest. Blandly, Ilyichev produced the dossier, which included a picture of Sokolowski in a German uniform and a 1944 Austrian police record listing him as a deserter from the Russian army. The Russians had thoughtfully stolen both from Vienna police headquarters in 1945, tucked them away for use in their own time...
...opera staffers without Kirstein's knowledge. Last week's last-straw news: the board had ignored Kirstein's plan to have Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti supervise the opera division and renewed Conductor Rosenstock's contract against Kirstein's wishes. Director Kirstein resigned in protest. Said he: "The board operates on the theory that you can't have excellence in New York. They think of the City Center as a money-making concern; I see it as a money-spending concern...
...wake of considerable parental protest, the Washington, D.C. school board was considering a move to abandon the school system's gradeless type of modern report card for elementary schoolchildren. If the move goes through, a pupil will no longer be competing only with himself for such vague comments as "satisfactory," "outstanding," or "needs much improvement." Instead, he will be expected to perform the work for the grade he is in-and get the old-fashioned A, B, C, D or U (for unsatisfactory...
...Gulda's third visit to the U.S. since his ill-fated arrival in 1950. At the age of ten, in Vienna. Gulda was impressed into a Hitler Youth group, and that was enough under the McCarran Internal Security Act to land him on Ellis Island. After a protest storm in the press Gulda finally played-to rave reviews-and took the next plane home. His political history cleared up, he later gave about 200 concerts on tours of the U.S., Europe and South America...