Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Isaac Stern, 31, top-ranking, young U.S. violinist; and Vera Lindenblit, 24, German-born refugee, former U.N. researcher; he for the second time, she for the first; near Tel Aviv...
...strange, sealed-off world that young Stalin saw within the Kremlin's cold walls. As his father ruthlessly hacked his way upwards, Vasily found himself more & more isolated from other children. His companions were the stern-faced NKVD sentries lining the Kremlin corridors ; his teachers, special party instructors...
Bending Twig. John Foster grew up under the hand of old-fashioned authority. He got caned and had his ears cuffed for throwing spitballs in school. Father, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N.Y., was benevolently stern. Mother was Edith Foster, a woman of energy and propriety who once became so appalled at the bad manners of the students of Auburn (N.Y.) Theological Seminary that she wrote a manual on proper decorum, covering such subjects as How to Say Hello, How to Say Goodbye, How to Manage a Cup of Tea. Young Foster, as the family called...
Admiral Joy promptly reported the violation to General Ridgway in Tokyo. If the Reds had any doubts left about U.S. firmness at Kaesong, Ridgway cleared them up fast. He called off next day's conference, sent a coldly stern message to the Red commanders, North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai: ". . . I now invite your attention to this flagrant violation of the assurances which I required and which you promised. [Until] a satisfactory explanation of this violation and assurance of a nonrecurrence are received . . . the United Nations Command delegation will remain...
...innovations: 1) to ditch realism for abstraction in the sets, 2) to make the stern old gods of Valhalla look less like period pieces. Designer Wieland Wagner's argument: the world has changed and so must the cult of Wagner...