Word: zur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born invited him to Göttingen, where he earned his Ph.D. (at 23) three weeks after enrolling. Oppenheimer's Ph.D. thesis was a brilliant paper on quantum mechanics: Zur Quantentheorie kontinuierlicher Spektren. After the oral exam, a colleague asked Physicist James Franck (now at the University of Chicago) how it had gone with Oppenheimer. Replied...
...brisk little Bavarian delegate proposed that delegates from Berlin be invited as "guests and advisers." Before a vote could be taken, Reimann was on his feet again. "Zur Geschäftsordnung" (Point of order), he yelled, but was ignored. His face turned red, his grey hair flopped about wildly. "Traitors! . . . Stooges! ... Well, in a few months there will be no assembly, there will be none of you . . . der Tag is coming...
...Nobody knows." The fourth, Nobilis-sima Visione, was known as St. Francis when Massine danced it. "I never go to see the performances," Hindemith added. "I saw Nobilissima once because I had to conduct it." In less melodic days, Atonalist Hindemith wrote an opera (Hin und Zurück) to be performed both forwards and back wards. The Nazis called him a "Kulturbol-schewist noisemaker" and banned his works from Germany. Says Hindemith: "I never was controversial. But people were." Today, at 50, Hindemith is a solid citizen of New Haven, Conn. ("It's close to New York...