Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aside from the law, Fortas' lifelong interest has been music. His Sunday afternoon music group is famous as the "3025 N Street Strictly-No-Refunds String Quartet." Any visiting violinist or cellist who passes through Washington is likely to be pressed into service. The Justice numbers Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals among his friends, and has helped to arrange the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. In a jest that his enemies might not recognize, he has sometimes introduced himself at White House functions as "Abe Fortas?I am a violinist." His Italian Guidantus violin...
...government when he took over as the army-picked candidate for President just over a year ago. Far from doing that, charged the sober dai ly Jornal do Brasil, Costa's administration "has surpassed all the limits of unpopularity known by its predecessor," which was headed by the stern Humberto Castello Branco...
...guilty either of grave oversight or willful neglect in regard to Richard Nixon," read the stern letter to the editor of the New York Times. Its author, David Eisenhower II, 20, Ike's grandson, was in the thick of his new job as chairman of the Youth for Nixon organization. David and Julie Nixon, 19, are so optimistic about her dad's chances that they may move up the date of their marriage, originally planned for after their college graduations in 1970, to "sometime after the election." That could make it a White House wedding...
...Weiss first paints himself as a dreamy artist in a Germanic society of burghers. His Jewish-born father is a plodding textile-mill owner; his mother is a driving Hausfrau-a stern and pious character preaching joylessly that "Life means working, working, and then more working." Young Peter flees the expected middle-class role by becoming an art student in Prague...
LUCERNE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 14-Sept. 8) is long on notable artists (Artur Rubinstein, Herbert von Karajan, William Steinberg, Isaac Stern) and short on program ideas. Still, the air is crisp and the execution usually exemplary at the picturesque lakeside resort...