Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morning Bouts. In the mornings, when the deputies for Austria met, the chief antagonists were the U.S.'s General Mark W. Clark, veteran of many a bout with the Russians in Vienna, and Russia's Fedor T. Gusev. The most stubborn brackets between them...
Burial in Berlin. In Vienna, the cold wave brought a bizarre crime wave. Robbers with Tommy guns held up trolley cars, stripped riders to their underwear, made off with their clothes. Raiding parties snatched hats (which were almost unobtainable by purchase) from men's heads in broad daylight. One Viennese, held up and stripped in front of his own door, asked for his key; the bandit fumbled through his victim's pants, found the key and the householder scurried indoors...
...full of golden promises; Europe was full of needy stars. In Milan, in Vienna and in Paris, they signed up; they all wanted to make their fame & fortune in the U.S. For singing with the official-sounding "United States Opera Company," Ottavio Scotto, a Chicago opera impresario who once managed Enrico Caruso and Claudia Muzio, offered salaries up to $1,000 a performance and first-class passage on the Queen Elizabeth...
This gruesome novel of human beastliness was one of the last (and most appropriate) to be published in Vienna before the Anschluss. Last year, it appeared in translation in England (where Bulgarian-born Author Canetti now lives) and set the critics ablaze pro & con. "Mere Central-European portentousness . . . at once heavy and trivial. . . . A terrific and inconsequent to-do about trifles,"harrumphed the dignified London Times Literary Supplement. "Appalling, magnificent," exclaimed the Spectator, "screams and bellows of evil out of which [a] supremely mad, unfaceable book is orchestrated . . . of which we dare not deny the genius...
...lona in the Inner Hebrides, off Scotland's west coast. There, in 563 A.D., on lona's misty, rainy four square miles, he established a base in the great Celtic Christianizing that swept eastward from Ireland to Britain, across to the Continent - and as far south as Vienna...