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Manager Rudolf Bing turned it down, even after Austrian Chancellor Josef Klaus personally urged him to accept. The New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein and Cleveland's George Szell were approached, but said no thanks. The Hamburg Opera's Rolf Liebermann declined an offer, and feelers were rejected by former Edinburgh Festival Director Lord Harewood and the West Berlin Opera's Egon Seetehlner...
...student leftists, police asked them to disperse, then went to work on them with bruising water cannon and truncheons. The students were not used to seeing their own blood flow, and many, moreover, were deeply shocked by the death from rioter-thrown missiles of Associated Press Photographer Klaus Frings, 32, and Munich Student Ruediger Schreck...
...American determination to keep them free. Thus last week, when 10,000 leftist students marched through the streets carrying Communist banners, chanting "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh" and crying their hatred of the "Amis," the city's reaction was immediate and visceral. Spurred by angry newspaper editorials, Mayor Klaus Schutz called West Berliners out for a giant pro-American demonstration that would serve as "an answer to the radicals and rowdies in our city...
What with Burgess and Maclean, Gordon Lonsdale and George Blake, Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, Britain's postwar years have often seemed to be a nonstop series of spy scandals. None of them ever produced the fascination and national soul-searching, however, that have marked the case of Harold ("Kim") Philby, the Communist double agent who became chief of British counterespionage operations against Russia. After four months of coverage by the British press, Philby's remarkable exploits are now the subject of a debate about the nature and value of the British Establishment, the traditional ruling class...
Martin, the anti-Nazi, leaves Germany in 1936 and returns ten years after, now an officer in the British army. There ensues a short, implausible, and generally drippy re-encounter with his brother Klaus (who covets a Nazi flag, significantly over-lit) and the play ends with the suggestion that Martin, for leaving the country, may be responsible for his parents' concentration camp deaths. In a sense this is rather courageous material for a student playwright, but the net effect is to downgrade courage on the scale of virtues and to uplift subtlety, the quality most sorrowfully absent from...