Word: zurich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years before Joyce died in Zurich (Jan. 13, 1941), he had been recognized as, at least, the greatest living experimenter with the English language; at most, the strongest universal mind since Dante. But his hard writing was hard reading; even with a reputation for dirty passages, Joyce's Ulysses has sold only 110,000 copies...
...sonata in classical form, and it wasn't his. It would be a waste of time to play it, and no service to Chopin." When he had arranged his programs, Brailowsky memorized all 172 pieces. In 22 years he has played the cycle 15 times in Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and New York. Never before has his Chopin marathon sold sot well in Manhattan, helped this year by the movie-fed boom in Chopin...
Last week, after two months in the U.S., Dr. Brunner flew back to Europe and his Systematic Theology classes at the University of Zurich. He had found the U.S. much changed for the better, theologically speaking, since his last visit in 1938-39. Said...
Last week in Zurich some 80 angels, mostly female, flocked to a heaven (in a "restaurant sans alcool"), to hear a German translation of Father Divine's latest "office talk." Reader Alfred Riesen, Father's governor in Switzerland, kept asking: "Aren't you glad?" Many angels wept for joy. "We thank thee, Father," they sang. "Oh, how wonderful is our Father Divine. . . . We belong to him with every atom of our body and soul...
...associate professor at the University of Toronto, Eric A. Havelock is the visiting lecturer in Classics and Phrixos J. Theodorides, who received the degree of Docteur des Sciences Techniques from Zurich in 1920, is to lecture on Aeronautical Engineering...