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Professor Government Emeritus Carl J. Friedrich, a well known scholar of political science, philosophy, history and law, died Wednesday night of Alzheimer's disease in a Lexington nursing home. He was 83 years...
...Friedrich, who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1903, began his 48-year career at Harvard in 1926. The author of more than a dozen books, he also edited and translated major works of German philosophies...
...Citing Friedrich's unique analytical style, Eaton Professor of Government Samuel H. Beer said yesterday that he brought a European perspective to the traditional, parochial study of politics in the U. S. "His stringent education in Germany led him to examine empirically the relationship between theory and practice, rather than studying each aspect individually," Beer added...
...Friedrich's specialties was comparative government and history, said retired Professor Arthur Maass, who was a close friend of the scholar's. Instead of concentrating on such traditional authors as Locke and Plato, Friedrich treated concepts, including authority and liberty, comparing the theory and practice of all types of government, Maass added...
STRAUSS: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Macbeth (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). Who could have predicted that a tone poem based on Friedrich Nietzsche's notions of the death of God, the will to power and the rise of a superman would become one of symphonic literature's greatest hits? Yet long before Director Stanley Kubrick popularized its spectacular organ and brass apostrophe in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Strauss's blazing essay in orchestrational virtuosity ranked high in audiences' esteem. Maazel and the Viennese give this mettle tester a commanding reading, capturing the grandeur...