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...under 30. Strout will be hard to replace, his journalist friend I.F. Stone says, because his thinking was firmly rooted in a "day-to-day reporter's bits of insight and vivid glimpses." Nor will Strout's lucid style, his knowledge and integrity be easily matched. Editor Hendrik Hertzberg and Owner Martin Peretz hope to find a successor who is content to remain anonymous, as Strout was for a long time. That is asking a lot in an age of celebrity journalists and in a Washington that resents secrets...
...Hendrik Hertzberg '65 watched the initial Kennedy speech with fellow Crimson editors in the newspaper's Plympton St. building. "Everybody was scared to death, literally scared to death," he recalls. "There was a lot of fear that this was going to lead to, well, that the moment had come...
...Hendrik is a minor actor correctly convinced that he is harboring a major talent-and desperate to the edge of hysteria to escape the provincial stages of his early years. He is discovered in his dressing room throwing a tantrum, while outside, in the theater, someone else is happily drowning in the applause he pathetically needs and will do anything to get. Do the Communists, with their workers' theaters and cabarets, offer him showcases? Very well, he will be a Communist. Does a rather distant and chilly woman offer him social advancement and a way into Berlin...
...Hendrik is not inherently evil. Indeed, in Klaus Maria Brandauer's person, he presents a rather open and innocent face to the world, and one comes to see that he is the victim not so much of calculation as of a failure to calculate. He appeals before he appalls. He really cannot see, until the end of the story, the difference between the Nazis and everyone else with whom he has leagued himself to get ahead, cannot imagine the dire consequences of ambition unmediated by, among other factors, simple common sense...
...Poor Hendrik (yes, a terrible sympathy for him does creep in). He cannot even distinguish between acting on a stage and making appearances for the party at public functions. Both are, after all, performances, to be relished for the gratifying attention that is focused on him. Many actors have had fun and won admiration by playing bad actors. Few have dared what Brandauer accomplishes: showing us a good actor responding to the same neurotic drive for the center of the stage, the immortalizing role. His is a great performance, nothing less...