Word: george
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pupil of Busoni, a follower of Debussy, Schönberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly not "listen...
...Isaac Newton described the effect well with his laws of gravity. Albert Einstein did better with his general theory of relativity. He found a metric (a measure) with which he could subdivide practically everything that happened in his fourth dimensional world. It was a theoretical measuring unit invented by Georg F. B. Riemann (1826-66), mathematician...
These comments, and others like them, sizzled from the sanctums of foremost Berlin editors, last week−even from such editors as urbane Georg Bernhard* and mild Henrich Rippler...
...Phantom Lover. Whether, as written by Georg Kaiser, this might have been a flip and stinging comedy or an exciting allegory illustrated with melancholy symbols, no one could determine. It was clumsily translated and five out of six of its players staggered about the stage with moans and agonies, glaring, and thumping the furniture with their heavy hands. A feeble-minded virgin, seeing a young lieutenant looking at the rings in a jeweler's window, became enamored. When she sat next him in church, she regarded this as a marriage ceremony. When he occupied an adjoining chair...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin cabled a stern protest to Bucharest, last week, protesting a high-handed sale by the Rumanian Government of some 200 small Soviet steamers and fishing boats, which have been seized in Rumanian waters...