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Buckley, who became a U.S. citizen in 1948, was a Guggenheim fellow in 1946-47 and again in 1964. He was awarded Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gaus Prize in 1952. Buckley was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a member of the Board of Syndics of the Harvard University Press. He also taught at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University before returning to Harvard...
Accompanying the small but significant accommodations are the stirrings of a diffuse kind of nationalism. One sign of such interest: for the past five months a book titled Where Germany Lies, written by Günter Gaus, 53, who served from 1974 to 1981 as West Germany's first diplomatic representative to East Germany, has been on the West German bestseller list. The attraction of Gaus' memoir seems to be its openly nostalgic quest for a lost sense of German national identity within the economically less advanced East. "People in the East kept what West Germans surrendered," Gaus...
...Gaus, now a television interviewer, goes on to suggest that younger Germans should imitate the merchants of the 19th century, who helped unite Germany by using trade to break down territorial barriers. Similarly, he says, peace movements on both sides of the border could "perhaps revive the national identity of Germans...
...previous productions, this company deserves the highest praise. Jane Alexander as Nora is first warm with love and later mad with grief. Terrence Currier's Covey is appropriately sharp and witty, while Robert Gaus's Peter stumbles and mumbles about with humor and sympathy. The rest of the players, as well as director Michael Murray, rate equally loud applause...
...with trivial conversation. A rhinoceros thunders through the middle of town. A second follows, and a preposterous argument ensues. Did the rhinos have one or two horns, were they African or Asian? The town logician (J. Frank Lucas) confuses the people with his circuitous syllogisms, and M. Botard (Robert Gaus) insists that the rhinos couldn't possibly exist--or if they do, they must be stooges in a capitalist plot...