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VERDI: DON CARLO (London; 4 LPs). The usual cuts have been restored and all five acts are here, sung by an assemblage of stars: Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Grace Bumbry. Their voices often outshine their characterizations (though Bumbry is good as Eboli and Ghiaurov as Philip), and the solos are stronger than the ensembles. Conductor Georg Solti generally keeps rein on the sprawling tragedy, which unfolds with dark grandeur and erupts with fiery excitement in the auto da fe in the great Spanish square...
...Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology. Younger ministers, on the other hand, would be far more likely to cite a book that is scarcely more than an elliptical fragment of theology, since it was never intended for publication at all. It is the Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the now-famed German Lutheran pastor who was arrested and later executed by the Nazis...
Died. Sepp Dietrich, 73, prewar head of Hitler's SS bodyguard and general in command of the Sixth Panzer Army at the Battle of the Bulge, who on Dec. 17, 1944, ordered the massacre of 86 U.S. prisoners in Malmédy, Belgium; of a heart attack; near Stuttgart...
...Europe as an ambulance driver on the Italian front). On one occasion, Papa boasted drunkenly that he had sired a child by an African bride whom he had acquired on a safari (possibly true). What does ring completely true is Hemingway's comment in 1948 about Marlene Dietrich: "The thing about the Kraut and me is that we have been in love since 1934 . . . but we've never been to bed. Victims of unsynchronized passion...
...Some Christians, of course, have long held that Nietzsche was not just a voice crying in the wilderness. Even before Nietzsche, SÖren Kierkegaard warned that "the day when Christianity and the world become friends, Christianity is done away with." During World War II, the anti-Nazi Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote prophetically to a friend from his Berlin prison cell: "We are proceeding toward a time of no religion...