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...accomplish this, he turns the presiding Judge Haywood (Spencer Tracy) into an active figure, avoiding the conventional image of justice in a trial-drama: aloof if not passive. Haywood, whom Tracy plays with proper naivete and the suspicious honesty of a Maine Yankee, is trying the case of Ernst Janning, a once-eminent judge who bowed to the Nazi definition of justice, and three other members of the Hitler judiciary. As the film unfolds these four figures in the dock represent varying levels of recalcitrance. Janning ultimately acknowledges his guilt; but at the other extreme, Emil Hahn continues to belch...
...sets forth a mythical combination of patriotism and ignorance of the consequences, to justify Janning and millions of others. Rolfe recalls: "the statement, 'my country right or wrong' was made by a great American patriot. It is no less true for a German patriot...." then, "it is not only Ernst Janning who is on trial here. It is the German people...
Build, Build, Build. Free University was founded in 1948, when a group of Humboldt students and professors appealed to U.S. General Lucius Clay for a new school, got money and help from the U.S. and West Berlin's late Mayor Ernst Reuter. Organized on the same day that the Berlin blockade began, Free University started out with candlelit classes in a few shoddy houses and the remains of ths-Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, its campus the city's streets and its study halls any handy park bench...
...program reports the "increasing proletarization in capitalist society," blandly and blindly ignoring the fact that since Lenin's day, the exact opposite has happened. Indeed, the document is so frequently divorced from reality and lurches so inconsistently from ethics to history, pedagogy to sociology, that Swiss Soviet Expert Ernst Kux concludes: "Khrushchev's program reveals the decline of Soviet ideology and its inability to come to grips with the problems of our time...
Rhythm & Pitch. Ernst Krenek's atonal Santa Fe Time Table was in itself enough to put a tremolo in the larynx of most singers. A long, desert-dry work, its lyrics is a list of all the station names between Albuquerque and Los Angeles* The chorus rattled down the right-of-way like a highballing freight, then proceeded to an even more formidable test: Schonberg's late works, Dreimal...