Word: grunewald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibition of German drawing now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts through April 17. The exhibition spans the golden age of German draftsmenship, from 1470 to 1530--an age in which Durer was the central figure. Numbered among the works of Schongauer, the Cranachs, the Holbeins, Grunewald, and other of Durer's forerunners, contemporaries, and followers, are 40 drawings by Durer himself...
...high point of the evening was the performance of Hindemith's symphony Mathis der Maler, made up of three sections from his rarely performed opera on the life of Grunewald. Intonation is a major problem in Hindemith. Chords follow one another in the most improbable succession; for the results to be intelligible, nearly every chord must be tuned up separately, and the musicians must have rehearsed it enough to remember what those unorthodox progressions sound like. It takes a lot of involvement and intelligence to play Hindemith--it's impossible to bomb through...
After the long, perilous winter, spring finally arrived in West Berlin last week. Billowing sails dotted the placid Wannsee; plump matrons nibbled pastry in the sun at open-air cafés along the broad Kurfürstendamm; amidst budding willows in the Grunewald forest, lovers strolled. Even the Russians were infected with spring fever: at the Soviet war memorial just inside WTest Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate, the two old T-34 tanks on permanent display were given a coat of bright green paint by a crew of Red army soldiers...
Smoothly and quickly, Technical Sergeant John H. Simpson of East St. Louis. Ill., swung the 90-mm. gun barrel of his M48 Patton tank down a sandy lane in West Berlin's 15-sq. mi. Grunewald Forest, aimed at a dark green box 920 yards away. "If that was a Russian tank." he yelled. "I would have had him with one round before he backed into the bushes...
Several times weekly converts are baptized (by total immersion) in nearby Grunewald Lake. Mormon converts under go no elaborate instruction, have only to declare themselves "in harmony" with the basic principles that 1) Jesus Christ is the Son of God, 2) Mormonism's founder, Farmboy Joseph Smith, was called by God to bear witness to sacred truth, 3) through Mormonism the Church of Jesus Christ was restored to its original purity, and has full power to bring about that order necessary for the blessedness of mankind, and 4) the Book of Mormon was given to the world by divine...