Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance of his show, Author Brendan Behan terrorized the English audience with extempore outbursts, matched booze for boos, refused to heed the actors when they faced him across the footlights and thundered: ''Shut up" (Sept. 20). An adaptation of Novelist John Hersey's The Wall (about Nazi extermination of Polish Jews) stars George C. Scott (Oct. 5). Judy Holliday is an odd but interesting choice as the star of Laurette, adapted from Marguerite Courtney's excellent, unrestrained biography of her mother, the late Actress Laurette Taylor (Oct. 27). Eli Wallach will take over the role Laurence...
Holding a press conference at his Russian hotel, Oliver Powers, tears in his eyes, read from a prepared statement: "I appeal to Mr. Khrushchev as one father to another for the sake of my boy. I understand that he lost a son in the war against Nazi Germany, fighting alongside the U.S. for the same cause." A few hours later Pilot Powers' wife Barbara landed in Moscow, accompanied by her mother, a physician and two family lawyers. Said Barbara: "The first thing I want to do is see my husband, and then Mr. Khrushchev...
Plus four remarkably fine first novels: The Bridge, by Manfred Gregor, a brisk, bitter account of Nazi teen-age conscripts thrown into the suicidal campaigns of 1945; Now and at the Hour, by Robert Cormier, the touching story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains but this time those of a less savory hero...
This bloody skirmish serves Germany's Manfred Gregor as the core of his first novel. Like his seven heroes, Author Gregor was called up from high school during the spring of 1945 in the desperate mass conscription of 16-year-olds designed to flesh out the shattered Nazi armies. As U.S. armored columns knifed their way into Germany, they frequently encountered such youngsters, callously thrown into the front lines. Most often the dazed and frightened teen-agers surrendered in tears without firing a shot. But occasionally, they put up astonishing resistance. How they behaved usually depended on the quality...
...Bridge is briskly told with an interlacing of flashbacks. Since the major characters are 16-year-olds, these flashbacks are mercifully short, if overly sentimental; the boys seem to have grown up surrounded by sweet, long-suffering mothers and avuncular lieutenants, with hardly a Nazi in sight. But these scenes from the boys' past merely serve as counterpoint to the adventure at the bridge and as clues to the variety of boyish responses, which range from terror to heroism. Gregor's bitter little novel labors no point, nor does it have to. The futility it illustrates would have...