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...have served in recent years as Attorney General have brought different approaches to the job: flamboyant activist (Bobby Kennedy), judicial academic (Edward Levi, chosen by Ford), slick wheeler-dealer (Nixon's-and Watergate's-John Mitchell). William French Smith, 64, is, above all, a discreet and reticent corporate lawyer, dedicated to serving his once and present client, Ronald Reagan. This conservatism, in both philosophy and style, has been the hallmark of Smith's tenure at the Justice Department...
...Rudi Dutschke during the European student uprisings in the late '60s, just as Wagner had actively supported the Dresden uprising of 1849. And like Wagner, Henze is willing to compromise on political principle to have his music played: Wagner was a polemical anti-Semite who still chose Hermann Levi to conduct the premiere of Parsifal, while Henze is a dedicated Marxist unembarrassed by being supported in high style by his royalties. Both are men of the theater: with seven major operas to his credit (and three more on the way), Henze is the foremost figure in the lyric theater...
...Itself (Putnam; 215 pages; $12.95). Set for the most part in Europe, New York and Washington, his novel is a deeply felt portrayal of Nazi savagery, the specific horror of the Holocaust, the courage of the few, and a slumbrous, insensitive America. It is largely the story of Niccolo Levi, a talented young Jewish actor who, by late 1943, has joined the underground in his native Italy because, as he says, "nobody promised anything except survival, which is what an Italian Jew did best...
...Levi's extraordinary memory and a chameleonic talent for impersonation enable him to evade capture for a while. When the Germans do catch him, he is sent to the same Polish death camp where his child has been killed and his wife is dying. Her final moments permanently change Levi's life: "He understood everything now. He looked past the chimneys at the dull sun. It was at its midway point. Noon. Poland's winter. 1944. He was to remember it as his last sane moment...
...York, where American and German agents hunt and are hunted? Manhattan-based OSS Agent Carl Berlin picks up a trail that leads to something big. Berlin, a German-born Jew, learns that Levi has escaped the death camp and is already in the U.S. His purpose: to stamp the plight of the Jews on the world's conscience by assassinating Roosevelt. This seems incredible: the Italian actor is in Hollywood beginning a movie career even though he can barely speak English. However, Levi's disappearance from a film studio sets off a cross-country chase. With a sackful...