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Crooks also singled out economics expert Dr. Frank Hahn, from the University of Cambridge; and Frederick Hartt, chairman of the Fine Arts Department at the University of Pennsylvania, among others well-known in their fields...
...Ernst Janning, a once-eminent judge who bowed to the Nazi definition of justice, and three other members of the Hitler judiciary. As the film unfolds these four figures in the dock represent varying levels of recalcitrance. Janning ultimately acknowledges his guilt; but at the other extreme, Emil Hahn continues to belch up protestations of innocence, claiming the Cold War as his vindication...
...Emil Hahn, the great anti-Bolshevik, leaps us at this point and calls Janning a traitor. As a director, Kramer thus bypasses no opportunity to remind America that crusading Anti-Communism has been used before as a means of encroaching on political freedom. Many liberal intellectuals have discounted the seriousness of the film because it relies on Hollywood's popular technique and personnel (Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland and Montgomery Clift turn in superb performances). These people should realize that there is a wealth of professional film-making skill in Hollywood, capable of more power and subtlety than any other cinema...
Ironically, at the time that the first volumes of Remembrance of Things Past appeared, Hahn was far better known than his friend Proust. The only son of wealthy parents, he published his first songs at 14. his first opera. L'lle du Réve, at 23. After that, he alternated between opera and ballet. Hahn met Proust when he was 17 (Proust was four years older); later, when his friend was living as a semi-recluse in a cork-lined room, Hahn often played the piano for him. Hahn advised the author on the technical passages about music...
...Composer Hahn at first did not take Novelist Proust very seriously-he regarded his friend as a talented amateur. But somehow. Hahn's own stature seemed to depend on that amateur's talent. Last week's revival suggested that the composer may at last have escaped the pages of Marcel Proust's book...