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...dismiss the Final Solution as the creation of a few madmen. In Holocaust, most Nazis are seemingly normal people who all too easily answer the call of a racist and fascist government. One of the show's principal characters is an intelligent lawyer and family man, Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), who rises in the SS by dreaming up "legal" justifications for the Führer's extermination program. We also meet doctors, technicians and clergymen who lend their aid to the Nazi cause. These characters, like the famous Nazi leaders who appear (Eichmann, Heydrich, Himmler), are played without...
...White-faced, Ford flinched from the gun. At the same instant, Secret Service Agent Larry Buen-dorf, 37, lunged forward. A husky athlete, Buendorf easily wrested the gun from her grasp and threw her to the ground. With the help of agents and a policeman, he quickly handcuffed...
...virtues of this new recording are the soloists. Carlo Bergonzi is good enough to make the listener forget Jussi Bjoerling's masterly reading of the Ingemisco. Birgit Nilsson is all fire; Lili Chookasian and Ezio Flagello both have big, warm voices. The difficulties stem from Erich Leins-dorf's conducting of the Boston Symphony. The pace is much too slow. The long, dramatic Otello-like lines enshroud the listener rather than move him. Tullio Serafin's interpretation of the Requiem (Angel) is still the best...
...comedown from Europe's gilded past, when internationally celebrated bordellos lined their ballrooms with erotic murals and antique chairs, offered their patrons bare-breasted dancing partners as a starter. But wherever they have sprung up, the hostels have done a land-office business. The Düssel-dorf establishment alone handles nearly 8,000 customers a day-at $3.75 apiece -and in Stuttgart, the monthly take...
...Were it not for Wagner, there could have been no Strauss, and were it not for Strauss, there could be no proper use for an orchestra as mightily sonorous as the Boston Symphony Orchestra can become when Conductor Erich Leinsdorf is in a mood to encourage grandeur. Here, Leins-dorf's orchestra is at its heroic best and so, as a result, is Strauss's music...