Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...injunction to stop the film from being released. He lost the suit, was paid handsomely for the film rights, and divorced himself from the production (after being assured that most of his plot revisions would be used and that all film rights would revert to him after two years). Kurt Weill won his half of the suit, and was allowed to rewrite his score for the movie, in spite of which fact about half of his songs are missing. (The conflict was ultimately settled by the Nazis, who destroyed every print they could get their hands on; and until...
...Church Choir in Leipzig, is also the oldest: the first incumbent moved into the job in 1212. For 27 years (1723 to 1750) Johann Sebastian Bach himself directed the choir that has since become the chief custodian of his music. But in the last 3½ years, since scholarly Kurt Thomas took over as choirmaster, there have been persistent reports that the East German government has been trying to force the Thomaner to sing to a Communist tune. Last week Cantor Thomas fled to West Germany, taking with him probably the last hope for the preservation of the world...
...place reeks of tent pegs and clean living," scoffs one critic about Scotland's famed Gordonstoun School. Founder Kurt Hahn, 74, is often accused of "Germanizing" British education. But as they met last week in London, 900 Old Boys of Gordonstoun took pride in more than the presence of a famed alumnus, Prince Philip, or the fact that Top People now clamor to get on the waiting list. Their real pride lay in the resolute character that they feel Gordonstoun gave them...
German-born Schoolmaster Kurt Hahn thought out his concept of a school while a student at Oxford's Magdalen College, where he watched tame deer browsing .spiritlessly in the park and saw an analogy with tame schoolboys. Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the overly contented. His "seven laws": 1) give children opportunities for selfdiscovery; 2) make them meet with triumph and defeat; 3) give them the opportunity for self-effacement in a common cause; 4) provide periods of silence; 5) train the imagination; 6) make games important...
...proud history, the U.S. Army has suffered no more galling defeats than it did on the nation's peacetime rocket ranges after World War II. With a group of ex-Nazi rocketmen as its nucleus (Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus), the Army bled its budget to set up in the missile business-and, in fact, saved the nation's face by launching the first U.S. satellite after Sputnik. But the Defense Department ruled that long-range rocketing was properly the role for the Air Force, and the Army's Redstone Arsenal was turned over to the National...