Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Klemperer, who came here from Vienna ten years ago, has been assistant tutor at Eliot House since...
...Nelson's fortitude and judgment, Admiral James sadly admits, fade from sight during the interludes on the Continent with his mistress, Emma Hamilton. "Antony and Moll Cleopatra" (as they were named by one onlooker) turned the courts of Vienna, Prague, Dresden and Naples (where husband Sir William Hamilton was ambassador) into uproar. Emma guzzled champagne and gambled with Nelson's money. Nelson, down by the stern in an alcoholic sea, roared demands for songs in his own praise, and aged, cuckolded Hamilton, merry as a grig, "performed feats of activity, hopping around the room on his backbone...
...Jacob Remler, a prison-ward psychiatrist. If it was about a patient, said Dr. Remler, he didn't want to bother; he was too busy. No, no, said the other doctor, this might be a relative of Dr. Remler's wife. It was. While studying in Vienna in 1934, Dr. Remler had married another medical student-Anna Sobel...
...starlit night four years ago, in the ruins of Santa Cruz Church, the Manila Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert since the Japanese invasion. In the audience were eight G.I.s from Brooklyn who never forgot the concert or its conductor: Vienna-born Dr. Herbert Zipper, who had survived Hitler's Dachau and Buchenwald, and two of Tojo's Philippine hellholes...
More sobersided was Jo Mueller's warning over the separatist dream of a South German state under the auspices of Paris: "Slice off southern Germany," he said, "and you surrender the north to the Soviets in the long run. You can't build a Paris-Munich-Vienna line without opening the way for a Moscow-Berlin-Ruhr line...