Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with its brilliant revivals of Mozart and Richard Strauss, the Salzburg Festival likes to present new operas by contemporary composers. But again and again, the living composers sound less alive than the dead. This year's opera: Penelope, by Switzerland's promising Rolf Liebermann, 43, music director of Radio Zurich. Last week the work opened in a brilliant production, made a less than brilliant impression on audience and critics...
...advice of a doctor who told her to take a "long, long rest," Academy Award-winning Actress Audrey (Roman Holiday) Hepburn, 25, also the toast of Broadway for her star performance in Ondine, announced that she is going to loaf for "at least eight months" in Switzerland, Italy, France and England. Said overstrained Audrey: "I want to enjoy life, and not become a wreck after a few years of work, like so many others...
...smokes cigarettes, he's liberal. If he smokes cigars, he's orthodox. If he smokes a pipe, he's dialectic. If he doesn't ( smoke, then he cannot be a theologian." Niemöller then admitted that the theory was not his, but that of Switzerland's pipe-smoking Theologian Karl Barth...
...Benito's sudden rise to power. Most Italians echoed her words, wondered what sort of oddity their new ruler was. They knew he was the son of a Romagna blacksmith and had come up the hard way, going to jail for his political activities, suffering poverty in Switzerland. They knew little of his real character-e.g., that he could be bullied by anyone who took the trouble. They knew still less of his chronic ailments (syphilis, stomach ulcers) and his antipathy to taking baths, changing his shirt, or shaving...
...correspondent. They haggled endlessly over procedure, spent two hours on the ground discussing a maneuver in the air. But they put on an exhibition of fine precision jumping that won them the championship with ease. In second place: the Czechs. Third: the French defending champions. Among the also-rans: Switzerland, Britain, the U.S., Italy and Yugoslavia...