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...elections, was on top of Europe's hit parade, with a song so old and square it sounded refreshingly different to a generation weaned on rock 'n' roll. Within little more than a month, a single of Scheel singing a square folk song called Hoch auf dem gelben Wagen (High Up on the Yellow Wagon) has sold 100,000 copies, making it the bestselling record by a German in recent years. SCHEEL SANG headlined the tabloid Bild. ALL GERMANY IS RAVING...
Most of those interviewed played fairly important roles in the campaign-people such as Sam Brown, Arthur Miller, David Hoch, Richard Goodwin, and McCarthy himself. Flashing back and forth to the interviews, de Antonio is able to tie together what each says into a chronological account of the campaign. While those he interviewed-especially Miller-provide much insight into what went on, it is unfortunate that more ordinary supporters were not allowed to explain their attraction to McCarthy. This, however, is a minor fault...
Dissertation is not drama. Between hard covers it may pass as a Ph.D. thesis; on the open stage it is a cruel test of audience patience. In recent seasons, a firm of legalistic factmongers - Hoch-huth, Weiss and Kipphardt - has invaded the theater. They shuttle between distortion and documentation, rehashing past history and seasoning it generously with the catchup of guilt. Each of these playwrights is a displaced pedant who pretends to be stretching the mind. In actuality, he is merely inviting the audience to have a good...
...Czech farm hand (he was born Jan Ludwig Hoch), Maxwell left school at ten, left his family's one-room Carpathian mountain home at 16 to join the underground fighting Hitler. Later he made his way to Britain, joined the British army as a private, left as a captain. With the profits of some shrewd postwar trading in German scientific manuscripts, he bought Pergamon in 1951 for $36,400, cajoled experts from all over the world into writing scientific tomes for him. Fluent in nine languages including Russian, he won a virtual corner on rights to Soviet scientific works...
...manpowerisation of a complexe industrielle before taking off for le weekend in le country. German now is splattered with such terms as discount house, shopping center, ready to wear and cash and carry. And the latest expression in Frankfurt ad agencies is Ziehn wir's am Flaggenmast hoch und sehn wir wer gruesst -Let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes...