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...surprise to find Hitler making a guest appearance in Korda's first novel, a tale of success, power, male chauvinism, Hungarians and even a little American publishing. His Fhürer unexpectedly drops in for lunch at Hermann Goring's, expounds the virtues of vegetarianism and overcomes the Reich Marshal and his companions with a blitzkrieg of uncontrolled flatulence...
...other personae of this remarkable exercise in fiction and historiography are not, and they rise from the pages as Jakob remembers them and their contributions to physics. There is the fascinating Scotsman James Clerk Maxwell, who forged the theory of electromagnetism, and Jakob's fellow Germans, Heinrich Hertz, Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck and that disturbing chap, Albert Einstein, who, to Jakob's everlasting distress, fused physics with mathematics and introduced a radically new way of seeing and thinking. It is a way that will provide humanity with a method of destroying that most complex and fragile construction...
...like Small Pleasures, 1913, is actually about the apocalyptic disappearance of the material world, the vanishing of the "mere" delights of body and landscape. As this show repeatedly makes clear, the fantasy of evolution from matter into spirit was shared by other Munich artists before 1914, most strikingly by Hermann Obrist, whose unbuilt project for a monument -figures ascending a spiral, hauled up on top by a winged angel - predicted the great unbuilt monument of the 20th century, Tallin's iron tower for the Third International in Russia...
Back at work, the Dowling committee forms a subcommittee to remind students that it exists. "This is the most important issue at Harvard, and possibly in the world," Andrew Hermann '82, who has been granted permanent spokesman status by committee czar John Dowling, says...
...Rebel Rudi Dutschke during the European student uprisings in the late '60s, just as Wagner had actively supported the Dresden uprising of 1849. And like Wagner, Henze is willing to compromise on political principle to have his music played: Wagner was a polemical anti-Semite who still chose Hermann Levi to conduct the premiere of Parsifal, while Henze is a dedicated Marxist unembarrassed by being supported in high style by his royalties. Both are men of the theater: with seven major operas to his credit (and three more on the way), Henze is the foremost figure in the lyric...