Word: zeitung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, by general agreement, was the most exciting interpretation of the Nibelungen legend ever. The usually reserved audience in Bayreuth's red brick Festspielhaus stamped and cheered till the rafters shook. Munich's conservative Siiddeutsche Zeitung described the production as "a truly sensational feat of music and stagecraft, which surpassed one's highest expectations. A pace-setting event in the history of opera...
...approach that afternoon, as her closed Mercedes whisked the Queen from her official residence, the Petersberg Hotel on the heights of the Siebengebirge, across the Rhine to Bonn. Clearly, the Germans were hoping for more than the genteel reserve that England expects of its Queen. The mass-circulation Bild Zeitung ran three photos of Elizabeth's glum face and begged, "Please smile more, Your Majesty...
...nightclub jokes, songs, editorials and politics. A British M.P. recently became so fired up by the delaying tactics of the House of Lords that he declared in the House of Commons that the Lords had "put a tiger in my tank." In a straight-faced editorial, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung feared that the tiger campaign could unleash "the beast of prey in drivers." Riding on the tiger tale, Esso stations in Europe are pumping record volumes; in France, April sales of Esso Extra rose 32% over last year. Italian motorists now drive up and ask station attendants simply...
...impressed by her performance that he staged last week's special La Traviata for her. Stratas did not let him down. Her singing of Verdi's virginal strumpet, Violetta, swept the packed house into a record 43 minutes of tumultuous applause. Raved the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Stratas intuitively found everything that makes the part touching, the erotic flair of the doomed girl, the fire and despair of her heart. Her light, balanced soprano obeys each impulse: from tender lyricism to great dramatic explosion, from giddy parlando to dolorous espressivo, everything is luminescent and enchanting...
Still rankled by memories of the 1962 Der Spiegel press flap, when over-zealous German cops arrested staffers and raided the magazine's office after an article disclosing classified NATO information, the German press was predictably caustic about what the Sü'ddeutsche Zeitung aptly felt was "making an elephant out of a mosquito." At week's end the Cologne prosecutor had still not filed an indictment, and everyone was hoping that the Shah would decide to settle for Neven Dumont's personal apology and thus bring a quiet end to the tempest in an inkpot...