Word: karl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" (Karl Marx...
Absolute & Lesser Musts. The guide was founded by Karl Baedeker, a book-dealer's son from Essen, Germany, who in 1827 published a thin booklet on the best ways & means of traveling along the Rhine. For the rest of his life, Baedeker traveled about Europe, by bicycle, on horseback and by coach, notebook in hand, eyes peeled for grandeur to praise or bedbugs to warn against. In time, Karl and his sons, who took over the business, were assisted by legions of conscientious observers combining the qualities of master spies and bons 'vivants. By the eve of World...
Conductor Karl Boehm of the touring Vienna State Opera was hot, tired and in no mood to audition the unknown young American bass-baritone who waited for him. Nevertheless, after rehearsal on a June day in Brussels, he called for the young hopeful. In the audition he made what seemed last week to be the operatic find of the year...
...hillside amid drab housing projects and crumbling Victorian relics, lies London's cluttered Highgate Cemetery. There, in a single grave rest the remains of a onetime 19th Century German beauty, Jenny von Westphalen, her grandson Harry Longuet, her servant girl Helene Demuth and her famed husband Karl Marx. Now & then a Communist or Socialist deputation stops by to pay its respects and leave behind a wreath. Otherwise the grave of the man whom both Communists and Socialists claim as their spiritual father is neglected and weed-grown. Its official custodian, another Marx grandson named Edgar Longuet, lives far away...
Last month, members of the Swiss Socialist Party became disturbed over the fact that the last resting place of the great Karl Marx was thus ignored. They sent a delegation to Dr. Longuet in Paris offering to tend and beautify the London grave. The doctor, onetime Socialist who turned Communist in 1939, indignantly refused. "As long as I live," cried Longuet last week, "I will not permit any anti-Marxists to meddle with the grave. The Socialists have no business at my grandfather's grave...