Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensational outburst of national passion developed over the Algerian crisis during a lecture by Stanley H. Hoffmann, Henry La Barre Jayne Assistant Professor of Government, Sunday evening at the International Student Center...
...lecture, entitled "France's Fifth Republic," Hoffmann, a Frenchman himself, supported the policies of Premier Charles De Gaulle concerning French policy toward Algeria. Hoffmann favored a postponement of a political solution while pushing ahead with a program of "economic and social recognition for the honor of mankind" in the area...
...admittedly unpleasant and possibly serious side effects, iproniazid was shunned until about a year ago, when psychiatrists decided that it might be useful against deep, unshakable states of depression. The first few researchers got encouraging results (TIME, April 15). A fortnight ago, at a Manhattan conference sponsored by Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., which markets the prescription drug, more psychiatrists affirmed their faith in iproniazid, and medical researchers in other fields are now chiming...
Duels at Dawn. In Author Dinesen's stories-recalling E.T.A. Hoffmann and the famed Tales of Hoffmann - Judas Iscariot can be met jingling his silver in a igth century Neapolitan tenement; drunken officers duel at dawn and an artist dies nobly before a firing squad; a king and a poet argue the night through while a bored prostitute awaits their attention. The intricate plots are played out against lovingly evoked backgrounds -fur-blanketed sleds race over the midnight snow of Copenhagen; the golden sun of Italy flashes from white villa to blue...
OFFENBACH : "What a master of all sorts of cleaning music! And how considerate a composer! Tales of Hoffmann is studded with injunctions like 'Je commence,' 'Silence,' 'Attention,' or 'Voilà,' handy indications that one is about to switch jobs, which allow a moment to put away the broom and get out the dustpan. Yet how haphazardly is his cleaning music placed...