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Hippie Heroes. Although Wisconsin v. Yoder was the first Supreme Court case in the long history of the Amish in the U.S., the Amish have always been a people apart, at odds with society. Their founder, Jakob Ammann, was a Mennonite bishop in 17th century Switzerland. After Ammann clashed with the sect's leaders over fine points of observance and demanded strict excommunication of backsliders, he and his followers broke away in 1693 and became the Amish. They sought refuge in America after William Penn's colony became a haven of religious freedom...
...people's republic of East Germany has already produced one gifted novelist, Uwe Johnson (Speculations About Jakob). Now, in Fritz Fries, it may have the makings of another. But where Johnson's austere prose was deeply ingrained with the drab, isolated atmosphere of East Germany not long after the war, Fries turns out to be a far more frivolous and cosmopolitan creature. His first novel is officially set in Leipzig, Fries and his characters, though, seem to belong to the new international Brüderschaft of the educated, disenchanted young, who uneasily share pop culture and rock music...
...sight. To be published in the U.S. in October is an other, still more definitive catalogue by The Netherlands' Horst Karel Gerson. At most it accepts, without reservations, 450 Rembrandts.* Many scholars feel that de-attribution has gone too far. In his 1964 study, Harvard's Jakob Rosenberg, considered to be ultraconservative in his choices, relisted 33 Rembrandts that Bredius had disqualified. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently looked at a discredited St. John the Evangelist, concluded that only the saint's beard had been added by a later hand, erased the beard and reinstated...
Other winners were Dr. Keith R. Porter, professor of Biology - studies in cell fine structure; Dr. Jakob Rosenberg, professor of Fine Arts, emeritus -- Renaissance and Baroque art in northern Europe; Dr. Donald Stone, Jr., assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures- - French drama, 1500-1630; and Dr. John Tate, professor of Mathematics -- arithemetic algebraic geometry
German culture, too, is vital, promising and socially oriented. While taking delight in piercing the pretensions of German materialism, Günter Grass (The Tin Drum), Heinrich Böll (The Clown) and Uwe Johnson (Speculations About Jakob) have dealt perhaps more effectively than any other writers with the peculiar poignancy of the human condition in the postwar world. Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Werner Henze have emerged as composers of worldwide status, and a younger group of West Berliners is experimenting with "post-pop realism." Just about every West German town of any size has opera and repertory theater. And for those...