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...began with Bortoluzzi's debut in Giselle, early in the A.B.T.'s current stand at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. He danced the role of Albrecht, which had become identified with the elegant and stylish Erik Bruhn before his retirement in January. During rehearsals, Bortoluzzi so shook up his colleagues with his arrogant bearing and exuberantly melodramatic interpretation that the ballet master threatened to walk out. At the first performance, Ballerina Carla Fracci, the Giselle and a longtime partner of Bruhn, kept whispering instructions to Bortoluzzi-where to put his feet, how to move his hands. Hissed Bortoluzzi...
...century later, enter Father Albrecht of Cologne, a desiccated Benedictine monk, sent by Rome to restore to the church whatever wayward children he may find on the island. Somehow it all works. Part of the merit is in Author Schmitt's economy of words (her description of 11th century Christendom: "Purified to small purpose at great cost"). Part of it, too, is the tantalizing, gradually unfolded history of marooned St. Cyprian: the early, apocalyptic piety, the later license, the hallucinogenic crops, the bloody rage. And finally the second cataclysm: the shock of realization and rebirth when Father Albrecht arrives...
...Died. Albrecht Goetze, 74, dean of Babylonian scholars; of a heart attack; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Branded "politically unreliable" by the Nazis, Goetze fled to the U.S. in 1934 and joined the faculty at Yale, where he served as Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature for three decades. One of his biggest contributions to the understanding of the ancients started by chance in 1948: he stumbled across some neglected tablets in the Iraq Museum. Eventually he identified them as one of the world's oldest known body of laws-the Akkadian Code of Eshnunna. Goetze translated the code, which...
JUST 500 years ago, Albrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg. The anniversary has been the signal for a flurry of commemorative exhibitions across the world. In the U.S., the most impressive is a magnificent survey of Dürer's graphic work (36 drawings and 207 etchings, engravings and woodcuts) at the National Gallery in Washington...
...remained largely unchanged for 1,300 years. Then the empiricism of the 18th century Enlightenment began eroding belief in the supernatural. The New Testament was described as a hodgepodge that revealed much about St. Paul and the early church but little about the real Jesus. In the 19th century, Albrecht Ritschl, a leader of liberal theology, totally rejected the deity of Jesus, and Historian Bruno Bauer denied that the human Jesus had ever lived. In Rudolf Bultmann's 20th century view, the "Christ of faith" returned, but the "Jesus of history" was inaccessible. The pendulum is still swinging. Bultmann...