Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with each intermission. Moreover, critics noted, the Von Einem score was derivative - now a dash of Puccini, now Tchaikovsky, now Stravinsky. The opera's best feature : three scenes in which Joseph K. (superbly characterized by German Tenor Max Lorenz) is involved with different women, all beautifully sung by Switzerland's Soprano Lisa Delia Casa (who will appear at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera this season). These scenes are effectively composed in a perfumed, formal style...
...Bern, Switzerland, Alberto Ascari, Italy's brilliant racing driver, deftly steered his Ferrari to victory in the 294.7-mi. Swiss Grand Prix. Ascari covered the corkscrew course in 3 hours, 1 min. 34.4 sec., at an average speed of 94.3 m.p.h...
Born. To Charles Chaplin, 64, cinema's incomparable funnyman, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 28, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their fifth child (his ninth), second son; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Weight...
...Switzerland last week, on a well-earned vacation, France's peppery little Jean Monnet, managing director and original creator of the Schuman Plan, ticked off the gains and setbacks since Western Europe agreed to pool its coal and steel resources just one year ago. The most obvious achievement was that the huge, $6 billion coal and steel industry-which accounts for 15% of the total industrial production of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations, and provides work for one out of every ten of their workers -had actually been brought under a single command. By so doing...
Barbara, now a young lady of 17, was 11, precocious and down-to-earth when she accompanied Bemelmans on a grand tour of France, Switzerland, the Tyrol, Italy. Every page of their progress is littered with the types that have peopled Poppy's works for the past 15 years. The bowing hotel managers (suggestive of urbane boa constrictors), the bespatted aristocrats, the bored billionaires, the Tyrolean songsters with hooked pipes, the tiny donkeys and the hairy mongrels-all these Bemelmans perennials once floated in a dream ballroom and filled the air with a fragrance of old brandy, Russian leather...