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...HEROD'S CHILDREN by Ilse Aichinger. 238 pages. Athenaeum...
...human mind has been haunted for 2,000 years by the Massacre of the Innocents, in which men killed children for reasons of state beyond the comprehension of their age group. Adolf Hitler is today's Herod, according to Viennese novelist Use Aichinger, and she has undertaken the tremendous responsibility of explaining what children thought about it all. In a thoroughly unbearable novel called Herod's Children, she invokes both recent history and Biblical Judea to belabor the reader's conscience with things that most people prefer to forget...
...about Friedrich's production and Rudolfova's performance, but the sticky thing was to explain what all this decadence had to do with art in a Workers' and Peasants' Paradise. The ideological Neues Deutschland quoted Lenin and observed that the opera epitomized the downfall of Herod's degenerate court, and was therefore historically instructive. It was better, said Neues Deutschland, than Luchino Visconti's 1961 production at Spoleto (where John was "a proletarian upon whose class consciousness Salome comes to grief") or Wieland Wagner's West Berlin production last December, in which religiosity...
...crusty, rasp-voiced publisher from Santa Ana. Calif., who plans to use Rampart College to promote the same "libertarian" philosophy with which he force feeds the 252,712 buyers of his five-state chain of Freedom Newspapers.* Hoiles's foes say he is to the right of Herod; he is, they say, an anarchist who carries laissez-faire economics to its illogical extreme...
...Dyke, the Letter tells how Claudia's son Pilo had his withered foot cured by Jesus. Overcome, Claudia tries to convert her husband to faith in Christ, but Pilate is an intellectual, and a nut about philosophy, and won't bite. From her vantage point near Herod's Palace, Claudia describes Christ's passion in gory detail: "Jesus, bound to a pillar, and standing in a red pool of his own blood." After the Crucifixion, Pilate loses favor with Rome, and ends his life a sick pauper, trembling on the verge of-is it faith...