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...clients constituted a litany of the best-dressed women, not of the year but of the century: Princess Grace Queen Fabiola, Marlene Dietrich Ingrid Bergman, all the Rothschilds' and most of the Rockefellers. A musical version of her life, enhanced by Katharine Hepburn but stripped of most of the real drama, put Coco on Broadway. She was on a first-name basis with people too famous to need first names: Cocteau, Colette, Diaghilev, Dali, Picasso. Yet at the time of her death, the woman Picasso termed "the most sensible m the world" had a Paris wardrobe consisting of only...
Schubert: Lieder, Volume 1, 171 songs, 12 LPs; Volume II, 234 songs; 13 LPs (Deutsche Grammophon). Schubert was a better song writer than even Bob Dylan; here is the irrefutable evidence from the master of Lied, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau...
...DIETRICH BONHOEFFER by Eberhard Bethge. 867 pages. Harper...
Theologian, reluctant rebel, martyr of the German Confessing Church in its struggle against Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer has become something of a religious folk hero in recent years, credited variously with being both a religious Che Guevara and a founder of secular theology. Eberhard Bethge, Bonhoeffer's student, coconspirator, and literary executor, expands what is already known about Bonhoeffer, but also adds important new material...
...Georg Kiesinger. Seated among the 6,000 mourners in Notre Dame was Senator Edward Kennedy, who remembered De Gaulle's immediate decision to attend the presidential funeral of his brother John in 1963. In the north transept, easily recognizable despite dark glasses and a dark kerchief, was Marlene Dietrich. Notable absentees: any high-level members of the Nigerian government, which is still bitter over De Gaulle's support of the breakaway state of Biafra; and Canadian Prime Minster Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It was impossible to know whether Trudeau, a staunch Canadian federalist, stayed away because he was still...