Word: wotan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second debutant, German Baritone Hans Hermann Nissen, with a traditional lock of property hair over his left eye like a well-bred Scottie, stalked woodenly as Wotan in Die Walküre. Judges gave him several points on power, few on subtlety. Two Italian sopranos were broken in on Puccini's sway-backed war horse La Boheme: Mafalda Favero who moped placidly as the tuberculous Mimi, and Marisa Morel who flounced her skirts and shrilled nervously as Musetta...
...former is to be represented by excerpts from "Die Walkure" and "Die Meistersinger" which includes Wotan's Farewell with the ensuing Fire Music, the Ride of the Valkyries, and the Introduction to the Third Act of "Die Meistersinger." Mahler's Fifth Symphony, only surpassed in size and gargantuan qualities by his Eighth Symphony, is also to be performed. It was composed in the years 1901-02, and has three divisions which are subdivided into five movements. It is hoped that the followers of these two composers will attend the concerts en masse and then hold their peace for the rest...
...bite. But among nearly 100 animal specimens collected there was not a single new species, let alone a new genus or a new family. A general air of disappointment was discernible. When Dr. Anthony descended at last, after ten days aloft, the others had gone off to climb nearby Wotan's Throne, another possible but not probable "biological island...
Adolf Hitler had one of his better tantrums last week. Once more the pudgy but intuitive little Führer put the fear of Wotan into baffled British statesmen, and once more France was a prey to apprehensive fury as the Berlin-Rome Axis...
Thus matters have stood, with General and Frau Ludendorff penning and printing tracts against the Jews and especially against Christians, their piety being reserved for Germany's "Old Gods" such as Wotan. Last week Dictator Hitler sat down and talked with General Ludendorff. They talked for two hours and next day the whole Nazi press erupted with joy, quoting such wise sayings of the General as : "I am not only an opponent of Christianity but really anti-Christian and a heathen, and I am proud of it! At this moment we Germans have almost freed ourselves from the teachings...