Word: friedrichs
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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...
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...
...Otto Friedrich. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington and Raji Samghabadi/New York, with other bureaus
...departure from the Oval Office will not be a day like the others, even if nothing special happens. "I guess we will take note of it individually and in our own way," John Sears said somewhat reflectively last week. "It was, after all, the end of something." -By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Hays Corey/Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York...