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KLEIST: A BIOGRAPHY by Joachim Maass; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 320 pages...
German Professor Joachim Maass's detailed, indispensable biography shows some of the reasons for Kleist's continuing fascination, and for his persistent obscurity. Maass describes Kleist's acquiring his skill, stage by stage, almost as if it were a fatal disease. Young Heinrich was by heritage the "right stuff' of which Prussian officers were made. There had been 18 generals in his family. At 15 he joined the King's Guards Regiment. Seven years later, he resigned his commission, apparently intending to take up an equally conventional career as a model civil servant. The youth...
...first cracks showed when he began to put off both marriage and career. Maass blames his crisis, a bit too simply, on Kleist's discovering Kant and losing God. It seems more likely that Kleist began writing protest literature against the suffocating Age of Enlightenment...
...Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, went on to say that Reagan's address was masterfully constructed because "a sense of his ideology" still came through along with his awareness that he needs Democratic support if he wants to push economic programs through...
While declining to predict a national trend or movement. Maass said the new federal bill and Proposition 2 1 2, the state tax-cutting measure, are "certainly similar," and said, "I think people were just fed up with the Democratic programs...