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...former fiancee of martyred German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer has given 38 of his letters to Harvard's Houghton Library...
Once the Harvard Glee Club stepped out on stage, however, the Princetonians were definitely out-classed. Under Elliott Forbes the Glee Club sang works of composers ranging from the late Renaissance Claudin de Sermisy and the mid-Baroque Dietrich Buxtehude to the sardonic child of the Twenties, Francis Poulenc. Theirs was a full-bodied sound, with the kind of focus and control that was totally absent in the Princeton group. The latter has the same basic sensitivity, but they lack the sheen and polish that make the Harvard Glee Club so irresistible in spite of everything. Both groups suffered from...
...Once she sought out Eugene Sandow, "the Strongest Man in the World." But he rebuffed her advances, preferring the male company of his Danish pianist roommate instead. The other object of her attentions was one half of an act named the Marco Twins -James, 6 ft. 3 in. and Dietrich, 3 ft. 6 in. It was the lower half of the team that attracted her ("Frankly, I was curious"), and one night she succeeded in satisfying her inquisitiveness. But later she discovered that the twins were not twins, not even brothers. They were husband and wife; it was the little...
...fondness for far-out analogy. Last spring, when John Kenneth Galbraith appeared at a picket line of striking television employees in order to show that he would not cross it, Buckley wrote in his column: "It was a nostalgic demonstration of an old faith, rather as if Marlene Dietrich, emulating the Victorian ladies of yesteryear, were to faint upon hearing an obscenity." Buckley summed up the attitude of Texas Republicans facing the approaching presidential election: "The dilemma is how to be, at once, both a winner and a Republican. That is the lot of the woman, as La Rochefoucauld observed...
...word to man. He retreated into seclusion when the Nazis took and twisted to their own ends his idea of a necessary link between theology and a dynamic' social order. After the war, Gogarten backed Rudolf Bultmann's demythologization of the Bible, and later argued, as had Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that secularization is a legitimate consequence of Christianity-that the church must march with history, accepting the knowledge science thrusts upon...