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...Twaddell have in fact found only one man who is culturally aware (he is, I think, one of the Schmidts). Herr Schmidt has written a book Ueber den Untergang der Weltl, he announces with pride. But Schmidt is resolutely cold-shouldered by average-man Steinhauer, who remarks (witheringly) "So? Das ist ja sehr interessant...
...refugees who still manage to make their way into West Berlin despite the Wall, East German officials last week turned to a device used by the Nazis, who in turn borrowed it from the Reds: they offered rewards to child informers who turn in "traitors."* The East German newspaper. Das Volk, reported with pride that Heidi Mallowitz received a track suit for alerting police to a would-be refugee near the border, and Karin Mundt got the same prize for directing a suspicious stranger "not to the border but to the border guards." The girls were members of the Young...
Failure of Theory. Part of the Reds' difficulty lies in the historic background of Communism, which was invented by urban intellectuals and aimed at the industrial proletariat. In Das Kapital, Karl Marx scarcely mentioned the farm problem except to say that "large-scale industry in agriculture will destroy the bulwark of the social order, the peasant." Marx's successors have persisted in thinking that a farm is just a factory without walls, and that farmers are identical with workers on an assembly line...
...reading your review of Miss Porter's Ship of Fools [July 28], I was struck by a similarity of titles remembered from long gone college days. In checking back, sure enough there was Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools, 1494) whose author, Sebastian Brant, died in 1521. It would be interesting to know if this allegory played any part in influencing Miss Porter's ideas...
Arriving on the set of Das Rheingold to begin rehearsals, Wolfgang Wagner struck his forehead and exclaimed: ''Is it possible that you're all Americans? He could be forgiven for thinking so. In the cast were Texan Thomas Stewart, Singer Sewing Machine Heir David Thaw, New York's Regina Resnik, California's Jerome Hines. Also at Bayreuth were such regulars as George London (Canadian-born but a U.S. citizen), New York's Astrid Varnay, Cleveland's Grace Hoffmann-plus California's Irene Dalis and San Francisco's Jess Thomas, both making...