Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called believers in democracy and liberalism say that the fact that Madam Flagstad returned to her quisling husband during the war proves the case against her. It is my contention that true love between husband and wife surpasses all else...
...From impressions gathered solely from the American press, I conclude that Kirsten Flagstad did what any wife would do for any husband: she stood by him in a time of trouble. Alongside this human reaction we have the facts that she did not sing for the Germans or the quislings. Her guilt seems to have been that she lived comfortably while her compatriots did not. That, to our moral ideal, was a sin, but millions committed it during the war who will never be shamed...
Physicist Oppenheimer, who reads eight languages including Sanskrit, will be the Institute for Advanced Study's third director (his predecessors: Abraham Flexner and Frank Aydelotte). Oppy favors porkpie hats and good horses. During the war he and his wife traveled by horseback from their Pecos Valley ranch to Los Alamos, to the considerable mortification of a tenderfoot FBI agent who had to ride along. Oppy's pet peeve: anybody who underestimates the Bomb ("Its limitations? The limitations lie in the fact that you don't want to be on the receiving...
...deal to build an entire industrial town, for the same Sao Paulo interests. Next step is to reopen its office in London, from which the firm plans to expand abroad. Most of his ideas, says Loewy, are intended "not for Park Avenue but for the miner's wife," are thus marketable anywhere...
...Orchestra's interest in both the new and the old was well demonstrated by Wednesday's concert which included an original student work and an ancient suite by Purcell. The suite, a selection from "The Virtuous Wife," is as faithful a standby as its title would suggest, and was unearthed from a manuscript in the British Museum by Conductor Malcolm Holmes. Other little-known works brought to light in the past have been "The Blessed Damosel" and "Variation on 'Mary Had a Little Lamb,'" the last-named written especially for the Orchestra. But despite its penchant for straying...