Word: hitleritis
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...young Austrian, his country's most revered athlete, climbs mountains to escape from himself. Leaving his wife, he treks to a remote kingdom to find a new truth. An ideal Aryan who befriends a boy of the yellow race, he dumps Hitler for the Dalai Lama. A man bred on competition, he becomes a missionary for peace and enlightenment. Sounds as though there's a movie in Heinrich Harrer's life...
SEYMOUR HERSH J.F.K.-Marilyn papers turn out to be about as real--and as journalistic--as the Hitler diaries...
...subject matter bounces from Hitler's last words (the Further entertains a few possibilities, including "BINGO!," before settling on "I never asked to be born in the first place") to the final moments of his first wife's existence (an event which is treated with great respect and tenderness and features some of the book's most skillful imagery). If anything is a digression, it's the barely developed timequake plot itself...
...apart, as indicated by the range of Eisenberg's new collection, All Around Atlantis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 244 pages; $23). Anna, of the title story, recalls her childhood living with her mother and the buried memories of aunts and uncles who died in Hitler's death camps. Overheard scraps of dinner-table conversation are not enough to reconstruct the past, so Anna uses her imagination. She starts by picturing a single barb on a wire, "its taper, its point, its torque, its dull gleam...
DIED. SIR GEORG SOLTI, 84, fierce maestro who prodded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the front of the world stage; in Antibes, France. During his conducting debut at the Budapest Opera, Solti's audience fled--not from his Mozart, but out of fear that Hitler, then in Vienna, was fast approaching. Never again. On the Chicago podium, he transfixed listeners, seemingly verging on levitation in his energetic efforts to draw tight phrasing and brilliant coloration from his musicians. His athleticism won the orchestra 23 Grammy Awards during his 22-year reign...