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...similar melting away occurs in the author's new novel, but what dwindles in this case is the reader's sanity. At first, all seems expert and ordinary. A novelist hears of the death of the eccentric owner of an Austrian castle whom he knew 30 years ago, and decides to make a sentimental journey to the funeral. The reader settles back comfortably, expecting to be soothed by a savagely ironic dissection of American life, or of Austrian eccentrics. But irony is not particularly evident here...
...Austrian Maestro Herbert von Karajan, 55, has long been an a.m. book worm, and now he has caught an early bird. While doing some crack-of-dawn reading in his St. Tropez villa, he heard a noise in his sleeping wife's adjacent bedroom, opened the door and bumped smack into a young burglar. "What are you doing here?" roared the conductor, appassionato. For answer, he got a fortissimo downbeat right in the kisser...
...often spends Christ mas Day in a hotel room talking to singers and agents; two years ago, he saw 42 operas in 25 cities in 44 days. Now 58, Vienna-born Adler traipsed across Europe until 1938, learning opera while lending his hand to such diversions as an Austrian production of Abie's Irish Rose. Then he came to the U.S. and, in 1942, signed on as San Francisco's chorus director. When Founder and Director Gaetano Merola died in 1953, Adler took over...
...nontechnical works during his lifetime. In recent years, three of France's finest theologians-Jesuit Henri de Lubac and Dominicans Yves Congar and M. D. Chenu-have been temporarily relieved from teaching posts and forced to submit their writings to the Holy Office for special censorship. Last year Austrian Jesuit Karl Rahner was required to submit all future writings to his superior in Rome for clearance, a restriction since lifted; Father John Courtney Murray of the U.S. was advised not to write any more on his special field of study, church-state relations. "In the Catholic Church...
Despite postwar losses of vast holdings in Communist Czechoslovakia, Franz Josef II is ranked among Europe's ten richest men. A grandnephew of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo ignited World War I, the alert, easygoing prince is also rated Liechtenstein's most popular monarch since Johannes the Good, who took the throne in 1858, reigned 71 years,* and spent an impressive $18 million of his personal fortune to build schools and roads in Liechtenstein. Though no one expected Franz Joseph to spend as much, loyal Liechtensteiners who crowded into the palace last week prayed lustily...