Weill

(7.) Kim Kowalke, ed., A New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), 3.

Weill Cornell physician-scientists have been responsible for many medical advances -- including the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer; the synthesis of penicillin; the first successful embryo-biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S.; the first clinical trial for gene therapy for Parkinson's disease; the first indication of bone marrow's critical role in tumor growth; and, most recently, the world's first successful use of deep brain stimulation to treat a minimally conscious brain-injured patient.

But he had also started to study and research the Viennese-born Kurt Weill, writer, with Bertolt Brecht, of The Threepenny Opera.

Weill was a German composer whose name (which is pronounced "vile") is not well known to most Americans, but should be: He wrote such pop hits as "Mack the Knife" and "Alabama Song," a piece perhaps better known by its refrain, "Show me the way to the next whiskey bar."

Weill pinpoints overcoming the emotional issues that survivors face as key.

Weill's collaboration with Bertolt Brecht is cabaret-based: ironic, alienating, witty, but aching with tenderness.

To former Citigroup CEO SANDY WEILL, who, in his recently published memoir The Real Deal, chided New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer for his prosecution by news leak, which Weill calls the "new McCarthyism."

Francois-Xavier Weill, * Sophie Bertrand, ([dagger]) Francoise Guesnier, * Sylvie Baucheron, ([double dagger]) Patrick A.D.

Bardes, professor of clinical medicine at New York's Weill Cornell Medical College, it has less to do with one's degree of thinness and more to do with "the role that thinness plays in a person's life." Medical clues include compulsive behaviors like intentional vomiting and using of laxatives to lose weight.

And so Kurt Weill was hastening to Paris on March 21, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became ruler of the Reich.

The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

Following the prefatory material including acknowledgements (vii), this volume is broken into seventeen sections: "Overture" (3-8); "Enter BB" (9-31); "Night Sounds" (32-54); "The Second Time Around" (55-68); "Slouching Toward Armageddon" (69-92); "Last Rites" (93-107); "In Transit" (108-23); "The Road to America" (124-58);"How Can You Tell an American" (159-80); "Limelight" (181-203); "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" (204-33); "Much Ado" (23453); "Street Opera" (254-75); "Before Sondheim" (276-99); "Cry, the Beloved Country" (300-320); "The Widow Weill" (321-43); and "Coda" (344-53).

AZ: "I have always had a strong response to Weill's music, to his songs, some of which I heard and studied in graduate school, and more recently playing two different roles in two productions of Street Scene.

Authors Weill and Ross--director and principal research scientist, respectively, at the Center for Information Systems Research--studied 250 companies around the world with an eye toward understanding how the more profitable ones managed the IT infrastructure.

Through Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht's Mahagonny Songspiel of 1927, Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti of 1951 and an arch little scene-setter of 2004 by Tim Coker our society is painted as having few values.