Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expert: There can be no relationship based on a mutual dependency of neutral markets. Otto Husch would not have allowed that. He was in Vienna at the time...
Beethoven in Ballparks. Last week, with his orchestra midway through its fourth annual tour, Conductor Swalin was proud of his boast that "in North Carolina, the word 'symphony' is no longer something to be afraid of." Minneapolis-born and Vienna-trained, Ben Swalin had had his big idea for a traveling symphony while teaching music appreciation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There was hardly a city in the state that was large enough to support a regular symphony. Swalin decided that if people couldn't come to the music, then the music should...
Last week the gentle toper of Mary Chase's Harvey was introducing his invisible rabbit companion to a host of new friends. A solid success in its first three weeks, the Viennese production of the Broadway hit set off more excitement than Vienna's theater had known in months...
Even many friendly Viennese were puzzled. Some sought deep significance in the fey comedy; one critic likened Harvey to Hamlet. Moreover, Vienna, which had been proud godmother to Freudian psychiatry, barely recognized that delicate science in its U.S. version. Certainly the alienist in Harvey, who yearns for a maiden and a keg of beer under a shady maple tree, scarcely seemed in the great Viennese tradition of soul-searchers...
Psychiatrics notwithstanding, most Viennese theatergoers took Harvey to their hearts as simply as a child takes his Easter bunny. Restaurant-keepers, says Vienna's Elwood Dowd (Actor Oscar Karlweis), are constantly thrusting gift packages at him. Most of them contain cabbage and carrots for the kindly rabbit who nightly helps his friend to find good in his fellow man. Even the Polish Minister seemed to have fallen sway to the rabbit's charm. At a dinner at the legation recently, he called Karlweis aside for a vodka. He poured out two glasses. "One for you," he told Vienna...