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...Viennese awaited their guests last week, they took a modest pride in the K. und K. emblems fastened to many of the city's landmarks. They seemed an appropriate gesture, even though the emblems stand not for Kennedy and Khrushchev but for Kaiserliche and Königliche (Imperial and Royal), and date from the already dim but recent past, when Vienna was the seat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
...mildly amusing novel has become a very dull, ill-starred (Dolores Hart, George Hamilton) little film. Don't bother about WHERE THE BOYS ARE; the co-feature, on the other hand, might well be worth the effort. SERENGETI is a fascinating color documentary of jungle zoology, by the vater und sohn team of Bernhard and Michael Grzimek...
...returning sun, with its suggestion of resurrection. A musical resurrection was certainly on the way when the work was written, but even Composer Arnold Schoenberg did not know at the time what it was to be. After Gurrelieder, the road led on to the forbidding atonal shrieks of Moses und Aron...
...Counterpoint), a mock-heroic exercise for his pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...
...life Schwitters made a modest living painting realistic portraits aimed at pleasing the sitter. In 1919 he branched away from the Dadaists, founded his own movement, which he called Merz. The word had no meaning, but came from a fragment of a piece of newsprint bearing the phrase Commerz-und Privatbank that he had pasted on one of his collages. "Merz," he wrote later, "stands for freedom from all fetters, for the sake of artistic creation...