Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...girl who couldn't catch a man. Her three brothers and three sisters had long since married. Fabiola has large, dark brown eyes and is an attractive young woman, though no raving beauty. Educated in Paris, she speaks perfect English and French and German, as well as Spanish, swims well and plays adequate tennis. Instead of attending university; she took nurse's training in military hospitals in San Sebastian and Madrid. In her spare time, Fabiola designed Christmas cards and published a children's book called The Twelve Marvelous Tales...
Under Ten Flags. Captain Bligh roars again, as Charles Laughton takes the part of a World War II British admiral, and Van Heflm plays the captain of a German raiding ship that Laughton tries to track down. An acceptable sea chase...
...prodigy who was teaching at a conservatory when he was only 16, Michelangeli served in the Italian air force and Alpini during World War II. He ran afoul of the German SS, who, by his account, "rubber-hosed" his arms when they learned he was a pianist. "A minor war wound of no lasting consequence," shrugs Michelangeli. But since the war, his health has been poor; he has played less and less, behaves with growing eccentricity. During rare recording sessions, he will sit pondering for hours before placing hands to keys, or walk out to take the speeding...
...height of his powers (he had just finished the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies), is a fascinating but vulgar and bombastic ode to Wellington's victory over Napoleon. Frankly composed to make money and originally intended for the panharmonicon, a sort of early stereo machine built by a German inventor in which nine different types of instruments were operated mechanically, the piece includes a rumbling God Save the King, an absurdly tinkling For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, an immense eruption of drums and other battle effects, with only an occasional hint of the true Beethoven (most contemporary...
Died. Wilhelm Pieck, 84, patriarch of the German Communist Party and since 1949 East Germany's first President; of a heart attack; in East Berlin. A survival artist who deserted the Kaiser's army in World War I, but returned to Germany in 1918 to become a charter member of the German Communists' central commit tee, Pieck escaped to the Soviet Union the following year, when the committee's two leaders were slain (said one of them, Rosa Luxemburg: "Pieck was my most faithful, but also my most stupid student"), fled to Russia again before World...