Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independent French-eventually perhaps an independent German-nuclear force. To Adenauer, this means good things: an end to ancient Franco-German rivalries, a stern fist in Moscow's face. To Franz Josef Strauss, it could mean more than that: the revival of nationalist German instincts and policies...
...Chicago's Wurlitzer Co. (pianos, organs, jukeboxes), who bowed out of the family firm in 1949 to found Manhattan's Rembert Wurlitzer Co., which has bought, sold, authenticated or restored more than half the world's 600 known Stradivariuses, supplied instruments to Kreisler, Oistrakh and Stern; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Harvard, I submit you have a concealed Jacobite Fellow-Traveler at the very center of your communications network! Fellow students of Harvard, I ask you to beware of these Jacobites! I say the problem is not to "Stamp Out Henry James"--as has been suggested--but to keep a stern watch upon these hidden Jamesians in your very midst! Fraternally, but ominously yours...
...gets sick, he merely cancels the night's performance. At home only to sleep, Felsenstein works a 14-hour day seven days a week, spends months preparing a new production, and keeps the dozen operas in the company's repertory in constant rehearsal. His standards are as stern as the dueling scars on his cheek. In a recent session with a 68-year-old baritone, Felsenstein abandoned his instructions only when the old man collapsed at his feet in seizures of nausea. When a singer once demurred at a Felsenstein command to jump onto the stage from...
Blick was the only Swiss newspaper to carry a picture of a wife killer from the town of Langenthal. When the man, gratified by this unaccustomed publicity, turned himself in to Blick, the paper printed his story-to the stern disapproval of the rest of the press. Moved by impulses totally alien to the competition, Blick last winter invited 40 needy children from West Berlin to ski in Valais-and picked up the tab. It asked readers for money to buy beds for aged and improvident Swiss. When readers responded generously, other papers blew their Pfiffe. It was not seemly...