Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three and a half weeks of the spring term, when a 5,000-pound wheat con- servation and a $2,400 cash saving were credited to the program. Contributions have been sent through Boston's Unitarian Service Committee to students at the University of Paris and the University of Vienna, and $300 was allocated to tubercular students at the University of Grenoble last week...
...says the legend, came the Gaels to Ireland, long, long ago. Last week another set of persecuted wanderers was finding sanctuary by the Irish Sea. Some of them vaguely remembered luxurious homes in Vienna, Berlin or Warsaw. Some remembered more vividly the sight of parents being dragged off to gas chambers. All had been hauled wearily across warring Europe. When London's Central Jewish Refugee Committee rescued them at last in Prague, the 49 orphan children were like so many mute, shriveled old men & women...
...Russians have tried hard to fight their own and Communism's unpopularity: to gain music-loving Vienna's favor, they ordered opera performances to be resumed last May. It was symbolic of Austrian-Russian relations that the Viennese claimed a singer in The Marriage of Figaro had been raped three times by Russian soldiers the day before the opening. To Vienna the chief villain is General Alexei Zheltov, Konev's second in command, who is believed by most observers to be more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past...
...Congress of Vienna convenes in 1815 (though it looks suspiciously like the Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris, 1946). Wellington, Talleyrand and Alexander, Czar of all the Russias, are about to sit down to a game of cards with Austria's Metternich. Cries the Czar: "Austria play cards on an equal basis with the big powers? Impossible...
...Communists, either. He meets an Italian in San Fernando who talks like a Communist. "I knew Trotsky in Vienna," Farkas tells him; "I didn't like his accent and the way he played chess. I regard Communists with the same suspicion as Jesuits." Farkas laughs, takes off his monocle and wipes it with his silk handkerchief. The Italian seems to be a friendly, good-humored fellow. All Farkas wants is the friendly, good-humored world he has always known. The Italian reminds him that such a world no longer exists, that for some people it never existed. Farkas shrugs...