Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Happened in Broad Daylight (Praesens-Film; Continental) is a cinema curiosity: a film that was later made into a novel. The script is the work of Switzerland's Friedrich Duerrenmatt, whose sinister morality plays (The Visit, Fools Are Passing Through) have been fascinating U.S. theater audiences in recent years. After writing the picture, Author Duerrenmatt rewrote it as a novel, published in the U.S. as The Pledge (TIME, March 30, 1959). Inevitably, people will say they liked the book better. It was a thoughtful study of the police mind and the one thing that destroys it: human feeling...
...Britain before the Royal Ballet brought it to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Ondine was freely adapted by Ashton himself from a fairy tale by German Writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777-1843) describing the love of a water sprite for a mortal.* Although it bore all the marks of Ashton's familiarly gentle, classically oriented manner, it discarded the classical ballet conventions that appear in such Ashton successes as Cinderella and Sylvia. What he was trying to suggest, says Ashton, was "the ebb and flow of the sea: I aimed at an unbroken continuity...
...tastes did not run to the simple beauty of Georges de La Tour. In time, De La Tour's name disappeared completely-not only from France, but from all of Europe-and it was not until 1915 that two of his paintings were formally identified by the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. Since World War II his popularity has soared-but even today only about 20 of his paintings are known to exist...
...booming West Germany, growled Berlin Critic Friedrich Luft, imported plays pack 160 theaters nightly, "but [German] culture is dead." France's top political theorist, Raymond Aron, apologized because democracy has abandoned parliamentary rule in France, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer apologized for all the wrongs he said science has done, and U.S. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith seemed to be apologizing because the U.S. is building skyscrapers instead of schools. U.S. Novelist Mary McCarthy moaned: "Western literature is the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse...
...Deadly Game. Three retired European men-of-law nightly meet for dinner and a sort of moot-court parlor game. An American salesman happens in, is tried for his morally slipshod life. Adapted by James Yaffe from a Friedrich Duerrenmatt novel...