Word: heinrichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strauss got an assist from a fellow Gaullist, that wily old (89) wheeler-dealer ex-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Adenauer proclaimed that President Heinrich Lübke, his great admirer, had every constitutional right to veto Erhard's Cabinet appointments. Schröder fought back in interviews by arguing that his views were, after all, the same as Erhard's. His foes paid small heed. Snapped der Alte: "You have proved totally incompetent. Germany's position in the world has sunk to a new low, and you are to blame...
...German Acoustician Heinrich Keilholz takes over. Clouds are raised and further patched up. Their function is now described as "decorative." Undulating, floor-to-ceiling panels of plywood constructed around stage. Auditorium walls reshaped. Two-foot-deep "reflector box" constructed around stage apron. Air-conditioning units are muffled. Total cost: $335,000. Critics say echoes persist and bass has developed thudding sound. Consensus is that sound is warmer, but still nothing approaching that of Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw or Boston's Symphony Hall-all built before acoustics became a science...
...seems that a visionary Flaming Angel, who once favored her with visits until she invited him to bed down with her, has reincarnated himself in the body of a certain Count Heinrich. The count has been more receptive to her favors but now he, too, has angelically gone and deserted her. The following four acts are one long mad scene as Renata pursues the count through the back alleys of her subconscious. Along the way, there are magic potions, a séance, rattling skeletons, a furry sorcerer and assorted gnomes to contend with. Even Faustus and Mephistopheles, coming...
...these two novellas Germany's Heinrich Böll (The Clown), like a brain surgeon performing an exploratory operation, opens up two representative Germans of the war generation: one a merchant, one a soldier. Without comment he inspects the devastation within them. Without comment he sews them up again. Diagnosis: something is rotten in the State of Germany...
ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE by Heinrich Böll. 148 pages. McGraw-Hill...