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...works stand as a crown to the German baroque tradition, and in his early music especially, there is an almost impressionistic reflection of the anarchy and despair that gripped Germany after World War I. He wrote within a range of dark emotions that makes much of his music seem alien and bitter-but it is historically accurate as well...
...time between pushing projects and pulling in foreign capital through nine overseas offices. Rassco has 10,000 investors in 25 countries, but of the $12 million they poured in this year, 75% came from the U.S. "They are doing something good for the country," says Stern fondly of his alien investors (now 60% of Rassco's shareholders), "while knowing that their money is safe...
Whim Creek. The White Australia policy is often carried to absurd, esoteric extremes. Recently, five Japanese technicians employed by a Japanese-controlled mining concern-at, of all places, Whim Creek in Western Australia-were convicted of violating an obscure 1904 law specifying that "no Asiatic or African alien shall be employed in any capacity whatever in or about any mine claim." As a result, Western Australia's state legislature last week repealed the law, but virtually negated its action by adopting an amendment specifying that Asians must still get government permits to work in the mines...
...play about love, an intriguing, graceful exercise in joyous fantasy and at the same time an inevitable tragedy. Ondine herself, the form of pure love and unquestioning affection, is not real, and in the end she cannot exist in the real world. It tantilizes her, but it is alien...
...shot John Kennedy was a "stranger to the American heritage," said Morton, and his "mind had been warped by an alien violence, not by a native condition...