Word: vienna
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...Vienna Simon Wiesenthal, 84, the legendary pursuer who has helped uncover scores of Nazis, is not sanguine about chasing down many of the remaining fugitives. But he argues that criminal justice is not the entire purpose of his quest. "These crimes can't really be adequately punished anyway," he says. "I see what I'm doing as a warning to the murderers of tomorrow." A warning to them, he says, "that they will never rest in peace...
...borders lest they be stuck with them. Hungary, for example, turned back 1.3 million people from farther east over the past year because Austria and Germany will not accept them. Austria, in turn, has tried to stop Bosnians from using it as a route into Germany. Measures adopted in Vienna this year make it much harder for anyone entering Austria to live and work there, and this month new regulations go into effect that strictly monitor the length of time even legal workers may remain...
Further, American symphonic culture is not some recent import but a populist movement whose roots stretch back to the mid-19th century: the New York Philharmonic, the nation's oldest, was founded the same year, 1842, as the Vienna Philharmonic. Many of the major U.S. ensembles are more than 100 years...
MAHLER CALLED HIM A GENIUS; Richard Strauss held him in awe; Puccini said he could give away half his talent and still have plenty left over. Schoenberg? Stravinsky? No, the recipient of these accolades was a wunderkind from Vienna named Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The son of the city's leading music critic, young Korngold had written a large body of music before he turned 15, including a piano sonata for Artur Schnabel, and achieved international success in 1920 at the age of 23 with his romantic opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City). It seemed possible that he would...
...Conference on Human Rights in Vienna last week, certain governments argued that human rights were a culturally relative notion. The practices listed below, alleged by Amnesty International and Asia Watch, don't quite seem like innocent local customs...