Word: zweig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nstler"-I am an artist), but he let the Nazis make him head of their Reichsmusikkammer (State Chamber of Music) in 1933. He resigned when the Nazis irritated him by criticizing his "non-Aryan" librettists, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (who had died in 1929) and Stefan Zweig. Last year, Strauss was finally cleared by a denazification court...
...late unhappy Stefan Zweig shared with most of us who have lived there the belief that Brazil is indeed a "pais do futuro" (land of the future). [He] attributed the lack of race distinction to the organized planning of the early followers of Loyola in the 16th Century. Led by Manoel de Nobrega in 1549, the first six Jesuits in Brazil began to plan the "new state" . . . anticipating the moral equality of all members of the human family. Through miscegenation and education, No brega and those who followed him hoped to create a new nation, if not a new race...
Germany's Theodor Plievier was one of that small, distinguished fraternity (including Arnold Zweig, Henri Barbusse, Remain Holland) who, after World War I, deemed it their duty to blow the gaff on military imperialism so thoroughly that a similar carnage could never come again. Plievier's main contribution was The Kaiser's Coolies, and after writing it, he fled into exile. Now, with an even more fearful war come & gone, 60-year-old Theodor Plievier has resumed his old theme song...
...peculiar role, that of a forgetful, confused, rich and good-looking Viennese composer. He lives in an apartment that would have made Johann Strauss' mouth water. The background of Vienna looks convincing, the supporting cast does fairly well, and if the plot, taken from a novel by Stefan Zweig but curiously reminiscent of "The Constant Nymph," were not so contrived, "Letter From An Unknown Woman" would come close to being a grade "B" picture...
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Universal-International) an adaptation of a novelette by Stefan Zweig, has the makings of an engaging kind of romantic movie that Hollywood seems to have lost its knack for. The setting is Old (turn-of-the-century) Vienna. The story: what happens when romantic love collides with fly-by-night love. The manner of telling is a blend of nostalgia and sad worldly-wisdom...