Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quentin's monologues but the carefully written group scenes, the distillations of a life that could provide several plays. One just doesn't listen to Quentin's speeches, and his generalized guilt becomes real only in what is now the largest of dramatic commonplaces, the mass murders of Nazi Germany. Quentin's prolix introspection provides only relaxation before the next rise of tension, the scenes that are the play's reality. As such, After the Fall is a dramatist's tour de force, but not a live play...
...PAWNBROKER. Recalling the terrors of the Nazi death camps amid the squalor of Spanish Harlem, Rod Steiger, in the title role, makes one of the year's grimmest movies something...
...TRAIN. A battle of the rails pits Burt Lancaster against Nazi Officer Paul Scofield, who tries to whisk a trainload of French art treasures off to Germany during the last days of the occupation...
...GIANT DWARFS, by Gisela Eisner. A bitterly effective indictment of the Nazi era and the new materialistic society that succeeded it. Through the eyes of a brilliant child, this young German novelist depicts a family's joyless, all-consuming pursuit of money and respectability at the cost of human feeling...
...FRENCH DOLL by Vincent McConnor. 250 pages. Hill & Wang. $3.95. In this one the agent works for the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency. He starts off impersonating an American pilot who has been dead some 20 years but who sold an important flight chart to the Nazis in the last days of World War II. Bullets and bodies start falling around him the minute he assumes the disguise. This book is in the older tradition of shoot first and don't ask questions afterward because what is one life anyhow. But it also provides a kind of Paris...