Hints and tips:
...As Agustín Carstens of the BIS recently put it — answering to Goethe’s “Gretchenfrage” (the fundamental question of life, in “Faust”) — the soul of money is trust....
...The last caliph of Islam, Abdulmejid II, was a European-style artist, among whose paintings is a portrait of his wife in a satin dress, high heels and a bob cut, reading a copy of Goethe’s Faust....
...The convent was founded in 1642 by Doña Ana, its first Mother Superior, a young widow rich enough to surround herself with nunnish friends....
...In 2012 Weidmann invoked Goethe’s Faust to warn of the potential perils of state financing by a central bank....
...The city’s textile mills are as satanic as any in 19th-century industrial England. Its sprawling port disembarks amputees from Spain’s colonial wars, while embarking child prostitutes....
...Seeing Gounod’s ninth opera one week after his audience favourite, Faust, is a useful way of deciding which is the better work....
...Apart from the tenor recital lollipop “Source délicieuse”, there is little music of note but much emphatic padding, run-of-the-mill orchestration, and regurgitated formulae from past successes such as Faust...
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