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During the past 30 years, 20 of them spent working for the CIA, Hunt has managed to write no fewer than 47 novels under a string of pen names: John Baxter, Gordon Davis and Robert Dietrich, as well as David St. John. His chief characters are Agent Ward, a younger version of Hunt himself (they both went to Brown University), and a casual, thrill-hunting Washington C.P.A., Steve Bentley, who describes the nation's capital as "a great town if you've got the stamina of a Cape buffalo and the wealth of a Punjab prince." Most...
...invaluable source. Among the others, just published or to come, are books ranging from the thoughtful to the frivolous. Helmut von Moltke (St. Martin's Press; $16.95) introduces a Roman Catholic nobleman who triples as an international lawyer and anti-Hitler leader, and who, like Protestant Dietrich Bonhoeffer, paid for his resistance with his life. Without overplaying their hand, Authors Michael Balfour and Julian Frisby make Von Moltke something of a prophet, so concerned with disturbing trends toward materialism and impersonal technocracy that he remains a relevant critic today...
Such a radical attack on science's vaunted objectivity is supported by no less a scientific dictum than Physicist Werner Heisenberg's half-century-old Principle of Uncertainty, which points out that the very act of observing disturbs the system. Writes Physicist Dietrich Schroeer in his perceptive book Phyics and Its Fifth Dimension: Society: "It seem to be just as the romantics have been claiming. The observer cannot be separated from the experiment...
...Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes place in a German cabaret between the wars. It was Marlene Dietrich's first film, and as Lola the vamp she sings cabaret songs. Many people think The Grand Illusion the best film ever made; I wouldn't put it that high, but it is undoubtedly a great film. Then there are The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries -- films Bergman has surpassed...
...reading of religious literature. "I'm interested in the ways different writers have expressed the religious attitude in different forms--epic, drama, confessions, meditations, lyrical poetry, and theological works." This semester, he has been leading a Directed Study with one undergraduate in the theologies of Martin Buber and Dietrich Bonhoeffer...