Word: george
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead, they offer a parade of fine actors in a series of theatrically powerful scenes. Georg Stanford Brown, returning as Chicken George's proud son, Tom Har vey, has a wrenching moment when he undergoes an insulting literacy test before a hostile audience of rednecks...
...today; his ill-conceived theories about unity of drama and music, based on very frail analogy to classical Greek tragedy, now find few admirers, especially since he himself failed to apply them carefully. And the music is much less well-served by this recording sonically and artistically than by Georg Solti's classic 1964 Decca set. If there is a need for Wagner in translation, it is in the theater, not on record...
...book takes place in India, where Alter grew up (although he went west for his education). The protagonist, not surprisingly a young man, comes from that hybridization of Englishmen and Hindustani that Georg Orwell described so brilliantly 35 years ago. Alter's hero feels a similar sense of class and cultural instability as those Orwell less charitably referred to as half-breeds. At the start of the book he seduces a young Hindu woman, is caught and beaten to a mild pulp by her rather boorish brothers, and banished by his embarrassed family to the hinterlands. At this point...
Almost more astonishing than the loss of such intelligence was the fact that the news caught so many high government officials by surprise. West German Defense Minister Georg Leber, whose office had prepared the report more than a year ago, lamely admitted that he had not got around to reading it and that indeed the Frankfurter Allgemeine article had "actually enlightened me." Chancellor Helmut Schmidt also denied having known the extent of the Lutze case. With irrefutable if infuriating logic, his spokesman argued: "How could the Chancellor know more than Leber?" As the initial shock sunk in. the spy affair...
Chicago Symphony Conductor Sir Georg Solti slipped as he stepped out of an elevator, and his assistant fell into a heroine's role. With Solti bedridden after straining a ligament in his back, Symphony Chorus Director Margaret Hillis, 56, was tapped as a last-minute stand-in to conduct a Manhattan performance of Mahler's difficult Eighth Symphony. Hillis spent an hour with the ailing maestro going over the score, listened to a radio tape of an earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall...