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...fictionalized interpretation of real events. Its dramatic structure is simple: Writer Gerald Green has invented a bourgeois family of assimilated Jewish Berliners and then propelled its members through the events of 1935-45. Shortly after the show opens, the head of the Weiss family, a doctor played by Fritz Weaver, is exiled from Berlin to the Warsaw Ghetto. His wife (Rosemary Harris) soon follows, and eventually the couple end up in Auschwitz. The oldest Weiss son (James Woods), an artist, marries a Roman Catholic (Meryl Streep), only to be sent to Buchenwald, then to the "privileged" camp of Theresienstadt, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reliving the Nazi Nightmare | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...Classics defeated the Harvard freshmen for the first time in their history to provide another of this year's highlights. Gordon Johnson and Fritz Mayer led the Classics to the 86-55 runaway victory at the IAB last month...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Classics Pass Century Mark; Hoopsters Notch 100th Victory | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...crest of the French New Wave. But as far as foreign films are concerned, the '70s belong to the Germans. With little encouragement, less money and no older hands to guide them, a few extraordinary young directors have given birth to a phoenix-the brilliant German cinema of Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch that Hitler consigned to ashes 45 years ago. "We had nothing, and we started with nothing," says Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who at 31, with 33 films to his credit, is probably the most prolific film maker alive. "For a generation nobody made important films in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Seeking Planets That Do Not Exist | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

TONIGHT'S BEANPOTHarv. vs. B.U. N.U. vs. B.C. BILL SCHEFT HARVARD 5-4 Northeastern 6-5 JOHN DONLEY HARVARD 6-5 Northeastern 6-4 FRITZ McLOUGHLIN HARVARD 7-6 B.C. 8-7 DAN GIL B.U. 5-3 B.C. 4-3 MIKE SAVIT COLGATE 6-1 Northeastern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cube Predicts... | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

During World War II, Allen returned to Berne for the OSS. Among others, he recruited Fritz Kolbe, an employee of the Nazi foreign office who delivered plans for the V-2 rocket missiles and minutes of the meetings of Hitler's inner council. When Allen became head of the CIA in 1953, he applied the same stylish ingenuity and ruthlessness he had learned in the OSS. One of his greatest successes was the Berlin Tunnel in 1954. At a cost of $4 million, the CIA burrowed into East Berlin to tap all calls, from Communist Berlin, including those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cold War's First Family | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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