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Sympathetic Dallas fans abound. During his trial, one group of rapturous women was dubbed the "Dallas cheerleaders," and today others are pushing a petition to grant Dallas amnesty. They claim he did no wrong. Norma Hebbel, 61, explains, "Claude did what a lot of people would want to do. They should've given him a medal, not tried...
Friedrich Hebbel, 19th century German dramatist, perhaps put his finger on why Compulsion fails to be large and liberating drama when he said that in a good play everyone must seem in the right. For the two killers this is impossible, less because of how hideous their crime is than how gratuitous: it lacks an understandably human motive. Clinically, the crime can be explained: given a lawless Jazz Age, two badly spoiled, rich men's sons, a homosexual neurosis and a Nietzschean intellectual arrogance, and such a chemical mixture may explode into murder-for-a-thrill. But the case...
John Ware Memorial Fellowship: Hebbel E. Hoff, 3M., Lindsberg, Kansas...
...work consists entirely in reading several short or abridged works of a few of the great writers of the last century, among them Sudermann. Hebbel, and Scheffel, and incidentally the reading is nearly always lively and interesting. The dramatic poem "Na than der Weise" by Lessing provides a pleasant interlude between prose readings, and the year is agreeably rounded off with an anthology consisting of prose, poetic, and dramatic selections of major and minor German writers from Novalis to Nietache. A reading period completes the outline...
German 13--The Dramatic Works of Friedrich Hebbel. To be given in the second half-year; previously announced for the first half-year...