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Meanwhile, construction was begun on the President's $80,000 residence on Quincy Street, and the cornerstone was laid for the Bush-Reisinger Germanic museum.
The exhausted postwar world swallowed Spengler's gloomy brew as a confirming, almost a soothing draught. What matter if the drink were hemlock? At least the worst was known. The Decline of the West, despite its Germanic prolixities, sold more than 100,000 copies in the first eight years, mostly...
His gestures are so economical that the audience often fails to see them; when the orchestra is surging forward on its own momentum, Dixon may suspend conducting entirely for bars on end. Such restrained emotion is reflected in Dixon's musicmaking. It is neither hot-bloodedly Tuscan, in the...
If one assumes that education need not lose its rigor merely by becoming less Germanic, it is evident enough that a good tutorial program can at least attempt to deal with a vast number of these problems. At the moment, perhaps, nothing can be done; the departure for England of...
Max & Maria. Acting is partly "a matter of family," explains Max with disarming candor, since "in Germany we Schells are like the Barrymores were in the U.S." Born in Vienna in 1930, Max is the third of four children of Swiss Poet-Playwright Hermann Schell. His mother was an actress...