Word: rathaus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rimsky-Korsakov. This season the Met decided to try the version scored by Shostakovich in 1940 but never before presented on the U.S. stage. The result is a brassy, full-throated Boris, stridently dramatic and highly colored (especially when compared with the thinner, drier orchestration of Boris by Karol Rathaus previously used...
...Weiner Sports Stadium; an anti-colonialism meeting which was largely unsuccessful because of a poor choice of location and impending rain; an expertly handled parade on Vienna's Ring ending in a "solidarity" rally in a public park, featuring singer Paul Robeson; and the closing ceremony by the Vienna Rathaus, which was basically an international talent show...
...chiding German frauleins on their spraddle-footed dancing, and American housewives on their hair curlers, calling the roll of celebrities who pass through town, and pointing the way to good food and drink, e.g., for Balkan dishes, "go to Bei Milan's in the shadow of the Rathaus...
...vigorous Fiorello LaGuardia tradition, Max Brauer was a good mayor. Pointing to reborn Hamburg, he trumpeted: "My administration has done this. I intend to stay." But this week 66-year-old Max Brauer was out of the Rathaus. In local municipal elections to choose the 120-man Hamburg State Assembly, which in turn selects the mayor, a four-party conservative bloc inched out Brauer's Social Democrats. The coalition won 50% of the vote, and 62 Assembly seats to the Socialists...
...even touched West Berlin's massive, rumpled Mayor Ernst Reuter. Last week, gazing over a raddled cigar into the cold grey of the morning outside the Rathaus window, he grumbled: "Terrible. Terrible and depressing. I wish I were away somewhere...