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...hero of German history, Arminius was a great Nazi favorite, but here Kiefer conflates him with awkward portraits of all manner of later German "descendants" like Blucher, who fought against Napoleon; Schlieffen, whose strategy for the westward conquest of Europe was the basis of Hitler's blitzkrieg; writers from Klopstock to Rilke, and so on. Lines signifying affiliation, as in a family tree (a whole family forest, in fact, this Teutoburg), ramble slackly between some of the characters. Pictorially, the result is a shambles, and one needs an instruction manual to decipher...
...ineffable silliness, are almost a match for the scene in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther when the hero and his beloved Lotte are silently savoring the beauty of a landscape after a storm. She utters one word, the name of a popular poet of the day: "Klopstock!" According to Goethe, Werther is "overcome by the flood of emotions which she evoked with this name...
...with the savagery of the streets and because he avoided any adults-know-best sanctimony, the meetings became a regular thing. James let the kids run their new organization. Soon they were meeting in a Mission district church; then they moved to a three-story warehouse donated by Woodrow Klopstock, a San Francisco real estate investor. The electricians' union rewired the building; neighborhood residents contributed desks, tables and chairs. Marines and Air Force men donated punching bags, while the Rebels themselves decorated the walls with stark drawings and slogans...
...combined Glee Glub and Choral Society were called upon only during the last movement of the Symphony, which is set to an ode called "Resurrection" by a man called Klopstock. The ode concerns God's splendor, which according to the concert notes is Mahler's substitution for God's judgment. At any rate, this reviewer, for one, does not know whether the tenors were properly balanced with the sopranos or if the basses were in good voice, but he asserts that the tone of the choral groups was always pleasant and controlled, even when they were called upon to join...
...throw of 53 ft. 2¾in., set a new intercollegiate shot-put record. Second place in the same event went to Gordon Dunn. Dunn and Lyman also placed first and second in the discus throw. Two more spectacular firsts-Blackman's in the 400-meter run, Klopstock's in the 200-meter hurdles-gave Stanford the bulk of her points, 35¼, for the title, to Yale's 25½. California's five-man team was third with 20. Two firsts by Bob Kiesel (100-meter and 200-meter sprints), piled up half of California...