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...unfortunate that this production draws you in for the sights and stumbles over the ideas. Oskar Panizza's view of the world turned him into a paranoiac who sought safety and death in an Austrian asylum. He didn't notice when World War II broke out, but he knew the essential facts of it, anyway...
...GOOD THAT there was sufficient worldwide protest against his nomination to convince Wolfgang Wick, a former member of the Austrian Nazi party and of the S.S., to withdraw as a candidate for the presidency of the Rotary International. But it speaks ill of that organization, and specifically of its central nominating committee, that Wick's candidacy was not terminated immediately after authoritative information about his sordid and criminal past became known. And it is to the discredit of the Boston Rotary chapter that they made no formal protest of the Wick nomination and instead professed a desire to wait until...
...Austrian industrialist Wolfgang Wick resigned his nomination to the presidency of Rotary International yesterday, a week after revelation of his past membership in the Nazi party...
This does not seem to be the case for our winter Olympic friends. And so the fabulous footage of downhill racers disappearing into groves of trees, or luge drivers sailing off a bank of glare ice into the Austrian sunset, or ski jumpers Evil Kneivling their way to the hospital, has made me reluctant to embrace the winter games...
Irony is another staple in the dining room. Superstars like Austrian Downhill Winner Franz Klammer get asked for autographs by other athletes, and the Russian hockey players, who are years older than most of the competitors, are looked on with awe. For the rest, the comfort of familiar faces appears to mean more than opportunities for international fellowship. The Swedes, in their yellow and blue, do not blend at the same table with the Rumanians in red. Nor do Americans eat with Russians. In fact, U.S. figure skaters do not sit with the American bobsledders; American skiers do not even...