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...Frank Wedekind’s “Lulu” is the story of an almost painfully innocent young girl, who is prone to corruption and seductive behavior that seems almost accidental. In fact, she makes childishly brash proclamations of her luxurious life but doesn’t seem to be aware of their sexually provocative insinuations. As such a dangerously tantalizing girl, Lulu entrenches herself in a downward spiral of intrigue, betrayal, and passion that always seems to leave her lovers dead...
...conscience of the Holocaust, making certain that the atrocities of World War II were not forgotten. On March 31, 1967, TIME wrote about Wiesenthal's memoir The Murderers Among Us. Here is an excerpt from the review that touches on the fate of the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank...
...Wiesenthal ... is more concerned that the world?particularly the postwar generation of Jews and Germans who find Hitler's genocide hard to believe?realize that there were, and still are, SS killers at large. He believes that young Germans, wary of the sentimentality in the Anne Frank story, were unconvinced that the entire tragedy really happened until HE LOCATED KARL SILBERBAUER, THE SS SERGEANT WHO ARRESTED ANNE FRANK, AND IDENTIFIED HIM AS AN INSPECTOR IN THE VIENNESE POLICE DEPARTMENT. Silberbauer readily admitted his role. Asked if he had read the diary, he told a reporter: 'Bought the little book last...
...Beethoven slowly lost his hearing, his thoughts turned to suicide. He wrote a surprisingly frank testament in 1802, confessing his frustration at hearing nothing but silence. Tempted to take his own life, Beethoven wrote, “it was only my art that held me back.” Remarkably, his flood of new compositions...
...importance of the theatre to their film experiences and to the Square’s culture in general. Next month’s calendar features showings of “Casablanca,” which is indelibly linked to the Brattle. The New York Times’ Frank Rich ’71, also a Crimson editor, remembers “the Brattle as the place you went to see ‘Casablanca.’ It was a sort of romantic institution.” Hinkle challenges viewers to watch the film at home, on DVD and then...