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Grass' novel is a perrennial best-seller in Germany, a volume of modern myths that has almost Biblical significance for those that lived through The War and knew Nazi Germany; and for the younger generation, for whom the swastika and the "heil" are the lost trapping of a confusing, all too-recent past. Even Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's seven-hour nightmare, Our Hitler, with its pounding Wagner and Beethoven, acknowledges Oskar's drum. It beats in time to the modern German effort to recreate Hegel's sense of history, Goethe's sense of self, Nietzche's sense of strength...
...more successful scene, the chorus girls dance as dolls, while Beth Saidel performs a dance solo as a ballerina lost in a sea of mechanical people. At the end of the number they "heil Hitler"; the ballerina gives up and joins them. Although the concept of the flitting dancer seems a bit hackneyed, it clarifies the action for the audience...
...freestyle: 1. Chris Hancock (H) 4:50.89; 2. Joe Heil (N) 4:52.65; 3. Lockman...
Chris Hancock was one beneficiary of this strategy. He outdueled Navy's Joe Heil for third in the 1650 free (16:51 to 16:59), and later pulled away from the Mid-shipman in the last 100 yards of the 500-yd. free to chalk up his career first dual meet victory. Heil had beaten Hancock by tenths of seconds in both events at last years Easterns...
...freestyle: 1. Bobby Hackett (H) 15:55.37; 2. Ted Chappell (H) 16:12.92; 3. J. Heil...