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After 1915, Albert Einstein continued to rely on his good friend Heinrich Zangger, a professor of forensic medicine in Zurich, to serve as mediator between him and his estranged first wife, Mileva. These three letters to Zangger, published here for the first time, allow us to track Einstein's fitful relationship with his elder son, Hans Albert, and his anxiety about the health on his younger son, Eduard (Tete), whom historians believe was suffering from the early stages of schizophrenia...
...their March 17 performance, the company looked the most stylistically comfortable and vehemently committed in Jorma Elo’s “Plan to B.” Lit by a large side panel of bright white and set to rather restrained 17th-century violin music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, the movement is rigorously athletic and ultra-contemporary, with flamboyant leaps that corkscrew in the air and hyperextended limbs thrown in all directions. Jazzy inflections color brilliant shifts in dynamic and direction, imbuing the whole piece with a kind of exuberant nervous energy. In particular, the male...
...Spielberg said he and screenwriter Tony Kushner didn't "demonize" the terrorist characters in Munich, since he felt that "many of them [were] reasonable and civilized." If Spielberg had been making a film about Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann?another gang that slaughtered Jews?would he portray them with the same degree of generosity and tolerance? Al Ramrus Pacific Palisades, California...
...DIED. HEINRICH HARRER, 93, Austrian adventurer and ex-Nazi whose 1953 memoir, Seven Years in Tibet, was the basis for the 1997 film, in which he was played by Brad Pitt; in Vienna. A onetime SS member who later renounced Nazism, Harrer was a skilled alpinist. In 1938 he took part in the first ascent of the Eiger north face in Switzerland. The next year, he embarked on a Himalayan expedition that led to his stay in Tibet, during which he became a teacher, adviser and friend to the Dalai Lama...
...Olympics would never have occurred. Aharon Shifron-Ronnie Concord, California, U.S. Spielberg said he and screenwriter Tony Kushner didn't "demonize" the terrorist characters in Munich, since he felt that "many of them [were] reasonable and civilized." If Spielberg were making a film about Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann - another gang that slaughtered Jews - would he portray them with the same degree of generosity and tolerance? Al Ramrus Pacific Palisades, California, U.S. I was a student at Hebrew University in Jerusalem during and after the Munich massacre. Also, I remember in later years the accounts in Israeli newspapers...