Word: hochhuth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Heritage (1) 3. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (3) 4. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (4) 5. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (6) 6. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (9) 7. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (8) 8. The Deputy, Hochhuth 9. The Minister and the Choir Singer, Kunstler 10. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower...
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...Hochhuth, The Deputy...
...instance of this human reluctance to judge, Miss Arendt said, was Pope Plus XII's refusal to condemn Hitler, which is currently being dramatized in Rolf Hochhuth's play, "The Deputy". Asked later if she felt Pope John XXIII would have kept silent under the same circumstances, Miss Arendt drew applause by saying she was "perfectly sure" he would not have done...
With its crude, inept dramaturgy, The Deputy is no service to playwriting, and as a polemic, it might have been a far finer spur to conscience. Hochhuth affects to attack Pius XII for lacking the power of faith but really attacks him for lacking faith in power...