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...strongest impressions are made by his father, a famous Austrian writer and intellectual whose once lofty reputation inexorably declines, mirroring the growing dangers to all Jews in the country. A series of articles in a provincial paper attack his novels, calling his characters "parasites living off the healthy Austrian tradition, not their own marrow." Bruno remembers: "We couldn't even argue that the articles were written by an anti-Semite. The critic, as his name showed, was a Jew." The maligned author grows ever more frantic and tries to become more Austrian than his growing band of tormentors: "Jewish...
...Austria as refugees since last January. In addition, many of the 30,000 Polish "tourists" now in Austria are expected to seek resettlement. Of the 33,000 official refugees, only 6,700 have thus far received immigration visas to enter the U.S., Canada or Australia. Last week the Austrian government suspended a 1972 agreement that permitted Poles to travel to Austria without first obtaining visas. As a Vienna newspaper put it, "The government has decided that this country can no longer serve as the waiting room of the free world, a sort of Ellis Island of the West...
...become as exhausting as the U.S. presidential primary system. Sixteen times in the course of five weeks, the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council had cast their votes for U.N. Secretary-General. Just as many times, the necessary nine countries had voted to re-elect the urbane Austrian incumbent, Kurt Waldheim, 62, who has held the job for two five-year terms. And on each occasion, the People's Republic of China had blocked a Waldheim victory by exercising to veto power. Finally Waldheim appeared to give in. In a letter last week to the December Security...
DIED. Lotte Lenya, 83, raspy-voiced, Austrian-born musical actress best known for performing, and later resuscitating, works of Composer Kurt Weill, her first husband; of cancer; in Manhattan. Lenya's signature role, which she premiered in Weimar Berlin, was the prostitute Jenny in Bertolt Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera. The Weills fled Nazism for the U.S. and, especially after Weill's death in 1950, Lenya renewed her career on the Broadway stage (Cabaret) and in spoofy films (From Russia With Love). Said Music Critic Harold Schonberg: "She can put into a song an intensity...
...course, the same could not be said of Kreisler's some 200 records. An Austrian violinist with the most distinctive style of the 20th century, he plays his own pieces with poise and beauty...