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Wechsler continued his education afteremigrating, receiving a degree from Karl MarxUniversity in Leipzig, Germany. He says he isprobably the only man in the world to hold degreesfrom both there and Harvard...
Powers tracks the elaborate and unceasing efforts of the American project directors to find out what was going on in Heisenberg's laboratories in Berlin and Leipzig. The great strength of his book is his ability to present precisely what the German team was doing and contrast it with the baseless but understandable American fears...
...turned to random -- and racially motivated -- violence. The national government counted 2,074 crimes motivated by hatred of foreigners in 1991, vs. only 246 in 1990. A Mozambican immigrant was thrown out of a trolley car to his death in Dresden; a Vietnamese was stabbed nearly to death in Leipzig; some Soviet children who survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident and were convalescing in a special children's home in Zittau, 150 miles south of Berlin, were assailed by a gang of stone-throwing drunks who shouted, "Jews...
Wagner was, in every sense, a man of his century. Besides being a composer, librettist and conductor, he was a tireless writer and proselytizer on subjects as disparate as revolutionary politics, vivisection and racialism. The little man from Leipzig was one of the leading anti-Semitic theorists of his day, venting his views in such pamphlets as Jewry in Music and Heroism and Christianity. Like other prominent anti-Semites, Wagner blamed the Jews for ) most of society's (and his own) ills and offered a solution. "Bear in mind," he exhorted Jews, "that there is but one redemption from...
...that the occasion was more ceremonial than musical. So the German maestro began with a polite bow to America, conducting two short pieces by contemporary composer John Adams and a set of Old American Songs by Aaron Copland (winningly sung by baritone Thomas Hampson). Then Masur, who has led Leipzig's venerable Gewandhaus Orchestra since 1970, reached under his tailcoat and produced his own credential: an authoritative, warmly expressive version of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. This served to remind the Lincoln Center faithful (and a national TV audience) that his roots lie deep in the European romantic tradition...