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...Russian origins, Salome was educated at home in Saint Petersburg and at the University of Zurich. In the course of her many travels she became a friend of Nietzsche, a companion, guide and confessor to Rilke (it was she who first introduced him to Russia), and a favorite pupil of Freud. She knew Wedekind, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, and Hauptman. She met Stringberg and the great stage director Max Reinhardt, and Martin Buber encouraged her writing...
Janouch's Kafka is a man of almost forty, a father-confessor whom the author meets in his office at the Insurance Association or on long walks through the streets of Prague. Neat and quiet, with "great grey eyes" and an expressive brown face, this Kafka ponders the problems of modern life as he walks beside his young friend, finally rising to some statement like "the dream reveals the reality, which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life--the terror of art. But now I must go home." And he strides away, tall and urbane, across the cobbles...
...home. "Recreation time" is filled with Communist Party lectures, propagandistic books and films. TV shows visible in foreign ports are often banned as "corrupting." Ashore or at sea, the sailors' activities are closely watched by the ship's zampolit (political officer), a combination cheerleader, disciplinarian and father-confessor. He is the deputy of the ship's captain, with full authority to punish any wayward salt...
Died. Richard Cardinal Cushing, 75, retired archbishop of Boston and confessor for the Kennedys (see RELIGION...
...generation of younger artists was involved with massive scale, expansive color, maximizing a few minimal elements. They could look at Barney's painting and appreciate that he had already anticipated the same problems. To scores of minimal and color-field painters, he became a kind of father-confessor...