Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ller, 72, was chief of the Gestapo in the Third Reich and Adolf Eichmann's immediate superior. For years it was assumed that Müller was killed when the Red Army encircled Berlin. But in 1963 the West Berlin district attorney's office opened his supposed grave and found the bones of three different men, none of them Müller. In recent years, Müller has been reported in Brazil and Argentina, where, some investigators believe, he acts as "enforcer" among escaped SS criminals...
...Logan is one of those grave, gritty Westerners whose dignity seems to have been whipped into him by the prairie wind. He is a sheep farmer, not poor but far from prosperous, a widower and a careful father. Camping out with his son Chris (Nicolas Beauvy) he awakes in the morning to find the boy sweating, bleeding from the nose, comatose. In the field all around him are the sheep, many dead, some still dying. Logan rushes Chris to the hospital and is advised by his personal physician and old friend (Richard Basehart) to admit himself as well. Chris convulses...
...then they veer unexpectedly into a mad kind of comedy, as when he tells of the attempt of his socially ambitious stepmother and an inept dentist friend to mold a plastic death mask from his father's corpse, with the result that the old man goes to his grave lacking eyebrows...
...born a Jew, the Nazis did their best to expunge his name, and his elegant, sweet, highly uncontroversial works, from Germany between 1933 and 1945. What happened thereafter was odd if not downright shameful. Mendelssohn's name remained forgotten in postwar Germany, his music rarely played. Even his grave, in the Mendelssohn family plot, was all but lost amidst the rubble and weeds in Berlin's Holy Trinity Cemetery...
...Army sergeant hunted it up, and cleared away the mess. Since then Mendelssohn's grave has become a musical shrine. Today Berliners, East and West alike, are enjoying a month-long festival of the composer's music to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Mendelssohn's death in 1847 at age 38. Herbert von Karajan led the Berlin Philharmonic down the high-flavored paths of the Scotch Symphony. The Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin gave the first major performance in 149 years of Mendelssohn's early (but mature) String Symphony No. 10. Even his mammoth oratorios were...