Word: zither
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strummed Zither. This novel is the last of a fast-moving, often hilarious trilogy (The Revolt of Gunner Asch, TIME, March 5, 1956; Forward, Gunner Asch! TIME, Oct. 29) that carries its hero from his home town in Germany to the depths of Russia and back again. It opens in the war's last days as Germany is crushed between East and West. Asch, who has risen from the ranks to become a lieutenant of artillery, is part of a disorganized unit surrounded by U.S. troops. A stray Nazi colonel named Hauk and his sinister aide, Lieut. Greifer, order...
...costly and briery successful attack is about the only military action in the book. What follows is a competent black-market thriller which lacks only the zither-strumming of The Third Man. A secret is beaten out of a stubborn woman; a doublecrosser is shot dead in a forest; a valuable convoy of goods is lost, found, lost again. Throughout this tapestry of violence, Asch and his "good" operators -Kowalski, Stamm, Soeft-match wits with the "bad" operators, Hauk and Greifer. Both sides use the naive U.S. occupation forces for their own purposes, and Asch and company even capture...
...chemical company, who sloughs off business worries after hours as a city councilman in suburban Ferguson, Mo. More and more businessmen are finding painting an outlet for nervous energy. Eight Manhattan executives play in their own dance band. Across the U.S., businessmen's pastimes range from astronomy to zither playing, but they serve their purpose only when they consistently keep the mind away from moneymaking...
...Zither (Ruth Welcome; Cook). Zitherist Welcome captures some of the faded charm of Old Vienna (even in Greensleeves and September Song) and the recording captures some of the sweetest sounds on disks...
...date stuff. Then they've got the Woodberry poetry room, with Swedish redwood panelling and three-thousand-dollar turntables four feet high. Of course nobody's interested in poetry much any more, but the boys from Humanities 130 slipped in some Burl Ives' records with obscene lyrics and zither accompaniment, and the place is really jumping now. They have the forum room, too; that's for football movies...