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...German film? Does spending two hours watching a group of conquistadors drift down a river, dying off one by one (the plot of Werner Herzog’s classic “Aguirre, Wrath of God”) fail to inspire you? Fear not, Herzogophobes, because there is life after his brand of New German Cinema. The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) recognizes this salvation in an upcoming series: “Growing Up: The Films of Hans-Christian Schmid,” running from Nov. 18 through 21. The series, co-presented by the Goethe Institut Boston, aims to introduce...
...best case, we hope to reach some kind of consensus by the end of this term,” said Ryan, who is the Weary professor of German and comparative literature...
...late it was nearly post-mortem, Brooks triumphed. In 1953, Henri Langlois of Paris' Cinematheque Francaise spearheaded the revival of her reputation by proclaiming, "There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!" The cue for his effusion was George Wilhelm Pabst's 1929 German melodrama Pandora's Box, in which Brooks plays Lulu, an innocent beguiler who radiates sexuality so unself-consciously toxic that it drives men mad - beyond lust, to disgrace and murder...
...Physical Sciences.” Those responsible for shepherding the report stress that it remains a work in progress. According to two members of the docket committee that determines the agenda of faculty meetings—University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Judith L. Ryan, Weary professor of German and comparative literature—the task force is prepared to revise the draft between today’s meetings and the next full faculty meeting, on Dec. 12. Professors from various disciplines have begun to make suggestions for revision. In the Economics Department, according to Chair and Professor James...
...foreign-intelligence division of the Stasi, East Germany's dreaded secret police; in Berlin. Rumored to be the model for John le Carré's shadowy Karla (a suggestion the author has denied), Wolf placed his 4,000 spies in such enemy territory as NATO headquarters, cannily converted West German agents to his team, and famously touted the "Romeo method"-the wooing of lonely government secretaries to gain access to confidential files. Among his best-known feats: placing an operative in the inner circle of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who retired in 1974 after the aide's allegiance...