Word: teutonicisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the concert began, the reasons for the success of the work practically hammered at the listeners' ears: this kind of music sounded big and flashy without forcing the audience out of its after-dinner stupor. The chorus sang the simplest kind of melody, from mild love lyrics and...
Nowhere (not even in the bureaucratic honeycombs of Washington, D.C.) is the balance between pay, position, privilege and office furniture so carefully monitored as it is in West Germany's orderly civil service. Last week, Adenauer's pfennig-pinching Minister of Finance Fritz Schaffer issued a directive to...
Last week, as nearly 9,000 Rotarians gathered in Seattle for the 45th annual convention of the world's largest service club, a back or two was certainly slapped. Total strangers called each other by their first names without let or hindrance. But the names were called in accents...
Faded Waltzes. The plot takes Macheath through a fake marriage with pretty Polly Peachum, two betrayals by one of his earlier loves, and right up to the moment of his execution-when he is saved by a royal pardon. Beaten into the mixture of bawdry and cynicism are a couple...
An Awful Bore. As the first German Hanover to occupy a throne in more than 80 years. Frederika more than justified her regal forebears. But a Queen, particularly a mere Queen consort, with such outstanding gifts and firm opinions was bound to have an unsettling effect on the delicate balance...