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Shirer has written other books about this period, notably Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, but the memoir form in this case offers far more than familiar material rechewed. This is his second book of reminiscence. The first, 20th Century Journey, published in 1976, had as its center a misty evocation of Paris in the '20s and was in some ways a familiar story worn by the telling...
Volume II has no such liability. Few Americans were on the scene as the Third Reich took form. Shirer was in Berlin, and accompanied Hitler and his entourage to Paris when the Petain government surrendered in 1940. At the start he was a newspaperman; Edward R. Murrow hired him away in 1937 to be the other half of CBS Radio's staff in Europe. Shirer's journalistic credentials eventually brought him invitations to the bizarre Nazi Bierabends (get-togethers over beer) organized for the press by Alfred Rosenberg, the official Nazi philosopher. Hermann Göring would circulate...
Painters have always collected other painters' drawings, to give themselves access to the code of imaginations they admire. Yet the first museum show of Old Master drawings (let alone ones by living artists) seems to have happened only about 100 years ago, in Berlin in 1881. It is a sign of the times that, for all the didactic efforts museums have put into photography over the past decade, showing how to deduce the complex intentions of what was once thought the simple truth of a photographic instant, very little of the sort has been done for the older...
...question is how so many of us came to regard the University as evil why students literally around the world at Berkeley. Columbia and Harvard, in Paris, Berlin and Italy, felt such bitterness at their universities that they were willing to immolate them in protest...
...hiring conductors and soloists. "This is just to tide them over," says the conductor, who grew up in Pittsburgh and played violin in the orchestra for two seasons. He says he wants to concentrate on composing and guest conducting. "I have been in music administration for 20 years in Berlin, Cleveland and Vienna. This is the first time in two decades when I can just make music." In case he changes his mind, Maazel has commitments to lead several Pittsburgh Symphony concerts over the next two years, including highly visible engagements at New York City's Carnegie Hall...