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...touched by its distributor, Columbia Pictures. "It was the most difficult movie I ever had to make," was Russell's verdict on Tommy; he prefers movies about classical composers. Tommy, however, has left its mark on Russell. In his next film, Lisztomania, he has cast Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt and Ringo Starr as the Pope...
...animate his face and conversation. Philosopher Martin Buber was later to recall him as "a statue without error or mistake, a countenance lit with the glance of the Messiah." Freud claimed that he had seen Herzl in a dream before they met. Others were less impressed. The Emperor Franz Josef, proud of his nation's liberal airs, fumed: "What would have become of this ungrateful Herzl had there not been equality of rights for Jews?" Bismarck considered Zionism no more than "melancholy reveries." Even the Rothschilds saw Herzl as a crank and refused him funds...
Died. Theodore Schocken, 60, president of Schocken Books, Inc.; after a long illness; in White Plains, N.Y. A Jew, Schocken took over his father's Berlin publishing house in 1934 at the age of 19, issued a collection of Franz Kafka, including the corrosively antitotalitarian novel The Trial. Publication was soon halted by the Gestapo. Driven into exile in 1938, Schocken fought with the U.S. Army against the Nazis, later established his own publishing house in New York, bringing out translations of Kafka's once verboten works...
...introduction of large amounts of hydrogen to coal at high temperatures and under very great pressure: it results in a rough equalization of the ratios of hydrogen and carbon molecules in coal. Frederich Bergius developed the process for turning coal into crude oil in Germany in 1913, and Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch devised a catalytic process for converting coal directly into gasoline in 1925. During World War II the Bergius and Fischer-Tropsch processes supplied the Nazi government with petroleum, and in late 1945 several German liquefaction plants were dismantled and brought to the United States for study...
Prints at the Fogg--woodcuts, engravings, etchings and drypoints from Durer to Franz Kline. This is an excellently planned exhibit, in the L-shaped gallery in the back corner that nobody ever visits its purpose is to be a teaching tool for the Freshman seminar on Prints and Printmaking, and it does a good job of explaining how the various kinds of prints and papers are made...