Word: norbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glory of New York is its museums. Highlights: the Metropolitan's special shows-Chinese landscape paintings, Goyas on loan from the Prado, the great Norbert Schimmel collection of ancient art. The Museum of Modern Art displays ideal taxis, the Whitney offers "200 Years of American Sculpture" and the Guggenheim Museum has its whole collection of early 20th century European paintings from 1880-1945 on view. And where else, in the same day, can one look at the only complete manuscript of a Mozart opera in this country (Der Schauspieldirektor, at the Pierpont Morgan Library), a brilliantly nostalgic collection...
...Norbert Y. Zucker Potomac...
Collected by ALEXANDER AFANASEV Translated by NORBERT GUTERMAN 662 pages. Pantheon...
Peasant Formula. Russian tales in the oral tradition have a distinctive diction, which is here brilliantly rendered by the translator, Norbert Guterman. This involves such conventions as repetition and introductory and concluding flourishes. The traditional "and they lived happily ever after" may be replaced by the more homely peasant formula, "They celebrated their wedding, and are still alive to this very day and chewing bread." Many stories end with a hint by the storyteller that he is hungry and thirsty after his labors. "There's a tale for you and a crock of butter...
...Senator Gaylord Nelson, Illinois' Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III or Minnesota's Governor Wendell R. Anderson. Only a month before Minnesota's precinct caucuses are to be held, the G.O.P. has no gubernatorial candidate on the horizon. The Democrats are having no such problems. Says Norbert R. Dreiling, the party's state chairman in Kansas: "People who were reluctant to run as sacrificial lambs are now begging for a spot on the ticket...