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...sudden disappearances, which I labeled on the chart in the original German, Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog), would strike fear into the hearts of the leftist guerrillas [as would] the team slated to carry out the plan as a "Special Action Group." When John Mitchell asked "What's that?" I knew that Mitchell, a naval officer in World War II, would get the message if I translated the English "Special Action Group" into German. It was a gross exaggeration, but it made my point. "An Einsatzgruppe, General, "I said, inadvertently using a hard g for the word General...
Neither Neustadt nor Michael Nacht, associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School, criticized Carter for his refusal to emerge from the White House and debate Kennedy...
Both men agreed that Kennedy benefited from the week of charges and counter charges. "Kennedy has climbed a long way back since his statement on the Shah," Nacht said, adding, "People believe more than before that Carter is playing politics with the Iran and Afghanistan situations...
...tonality, the structure which had supported music for over 300 years, was finally sinking under the bloated burden of its own chromaticism into an anarchic morass. The ferment which resulted from the destruction of the old order gave rise to Schoenberg's great expressionist compositions like the sextet Verklarte Nacht, which seems to breathe in that decaying, sickeningly rich atmosphere, and Pierrot Lunaire, which for many is the ultimate expression of diseased, depraved emotions. Schoenberg drew creative sustenance from the advancing disorder of musical forms and he hastened its progress, until by 1916, he felt that he could proceed...
...familiar genre of this novel: Every Nacht is Walpurgisnacht in the East Sixties. Its equally familiar subgenre is Highly Intelligent Young Upper Middle-Class Married Woman With a Screw Loose Wobbles About Manhattan In State of Distraction, Nervously Hailing Taxicabs. If that seems to cut subgenres rather fine, novels exactly fitting the description have been appearing every six weeks or so for several years now. In fact, the Nervously Hailing Taxicabs category is as easily recognizable as that now defunct tribe of novel, popular in the '50s, in which young men in gray flannel suits brooded about whether...