Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is also another type of mechanical music maker in existence-gigantic sound generators capable of imitating every imaginable noise, from a flute solo to an entire symphony. Some day the composers hope to link their machine to the great sound-maker at the Siemens electronic music studio in Munich. Since the Siemens machine can be made to imitate the style of any desired artist, the possibilities are devastating. The combination, suggest Barbaud and Blanchard, could make the performer as well as the composer obsolete. "What we've done," they claim, "is simply carry the old discovery that music...
...Munich Was Hell. Here the novel begins to reveal its announced design. This may be reduced to a quasi-theological conundrum. In the absence of God, the English, victorious but emotionally drained, did not think it was necessary to invent a new one; the defeated Germans, humiliated and unreconciled to humiliation, invented, or reinvented, something sinister-the old tribal warrior-deities...
...innocent Augustine, Germany is full of "lovely people," its countryside under the snow as pretty as a set of picture postcards. He had expected to find the new Germany pacific and progressive. It is only slowly that he comes to see the Munich of 1923 as a hell "where justice is not being done and seen not to be done." He recognizes confusedly that "in England, the ending of the war had come like waking from a bad dream; in defeated Germany, as the signal for deeper levels of nightmare." Society had been fragmented into "men living desperately incommunicado like...
...creating a system of related microcosms (thus saving nine-tenths of the wordage of the usual novel of public events). In the German half of The Fox in the Attic, the microcosm is the family of Augustine's baronial kin, who live in a huge old castle near Munich...
...long passages on the Munich beer-hall putsch of 1923, Hitler's escape, hiding and capture are a tour de force of dreamlike action. Hughes makes totally credible the incredible figure in the stained trench coat, hypnotically making his devil's incantations and stuffing cream puffs in his pockets-an ogre sowing the wind, though only the reader has a foreknowledge of the whirlwind to be reaped...