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...cast, this is a narrowly drawn onenote, or perhaps two-note kind of performance. It mixes rage and exhaustion the way old club fighters hack away and then fall into each other's clinch, softly drubbing the kidneys, to rest for a little while. (A few years ago, Friedrich Duerrenmatt staged The Dance of Death literally as a boxing match...
...most important visitor Manchester ever had was the son of a German textile manufacturer named Friedrich Engels. He arrived in the city at the age of 22 to complete his business education at a plant partly owned by his father. Instead, he spent most of his time gathering a mountain of facts, figures, impressions and personal experiences for his book, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. It synthesized the studies of history, economics and political institutions and drew conclusions that helped lay the foundations of modern socialism...
...FRIEDRICH DUERRENMATT...
Like Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch, Switzerland's Friedrich Duerrenmatt is one of those didactic dramatists who regard the theater as a classroom, the stage as a blackboard, the pen as a pointer and the playgoers as barely educable dolts. These playwrights take a dim view of man, dividing the species into two arbitrary categories: predators and prey, the fleecers and the fleeced. No one would deny that such characters are abundantly present in life, but to see the entire pattern of human behavior in these terms is one-eyed vision. As propounded in The Visit, currently being revived...
...arrival of the allied armies. If he saw in any of his horoscopes that Himmler was soon to commit suicide, he does not tell us. He does end on a note of good cheer: "National Socialism was smashed and disappeared from the scene. Astrology . . . remained." ∎Otto Friedrich...