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...admiral bellows one night in a manic epiphany. "The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! We'll build him a monument -the Tomb of the Unknown Sailor." Telegrams crackle, Joint Chiefs harrumph, orders arrive, engines clamor, machine guns cachinnate, and sure enough, the first dead man on Omaha Beach turns out to be-Garner. Next day every daily in the U.S. front-pages his picture, but a week later the corpse turns up alive. "Omigawd!" gasps the officer (James Coburn) in charge of public relations. "Instead of a dead hero...
BRITTEN: STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (London). Written to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of Purcell, this quartet is an architectural tour de force, requiring four lone instruments to construct a stately musical monument. Britain's impressive Amadeus Quartet does the job with distinction...
...immediately comes upon the wreckage of World War II. A few blocks across from Checkpoint Charlie is Akademieplatz, a mute monument to the East Berlin failure to reconstruct. Grass is pushing its way through the paving of a square, surrounded by once majestic marble Academy buildings with Corinthian columns. Grotesquely shattered marble figures now lie around the base of the buildings, crumbled columns are scattered on the ground, and the burned and sagging roof has rotted to reveal only its steel skeleton and the wreckage inside...
...escaped bombing or been restored, does one feel some of the grandeur of old Berlin. Walking up Unter den Linden past the City Library (with a large iron plaque informing visitors that V.I. Lenin spent 1895 at work there), past the magnificent old buildings of Humboldt University, past a monument to the victims of Fascism, one comes to the Museum of German History: a very strange museum indeed...
...exquisite standards of Robert Moses, 75, father and president of the New York World's Fair, the 646-acre monument to Mosaic vision is falling somewhat short of the mark. The fair's first season ends Oct. 18, and only 28 million fairgoers have materialized, despite Moses' estimate of 40 million. And then there are all those amusement concessions that have folded for want of customers. But, as usual, Moses knows just who is at fault. Last week, addressing a luncheon crowd of 250 newspaper publishers from upstate New York, he pinned the blame squarely...