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...Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe asked rhetorically, "What's merry about all this? We're fighting, it's cold, we aren't home." Yet McAuliffe cheered up his troops, who held on valiantly until the German advance was blunted. The general's one-word reply to a Nazi ultimatum to surrender--"Nuts!"--made history of its own and epitomized the defiant spirit of one of the Army's finest units...
Finally, there is the problem of the missing Nazi years. It is a fixed belief in most circles that officially accepted Nazi art was so bad that it cannot be disinterred and looked at. The trouble is that Nazi art was, to put it mildly, both German and 20th century, and its complete absence from this exhibition leaves the kind of hole one would expect a huge radioactive hot potato to make when dropped. It is the concealed background against which the achievements of Beuys and Kiefer have to be seen, since a large part of their work...
...begun to look for a wider connection. Characterizing the attack that killed Odeh as "terrorist," an FBI spokesman said that the Jewish Defense League, a militant pro-Israel organization, is "the possible responsible group" for Odeh's assassination as well as two separate bombings of suspected Nazis last summer. One of those blasts proved fatal: in Paterson, N.J., Tscherin Soobzokov, 61, a veteran of the Nazi Waffen SS, was injured by a bomb that detonated when he opened his front door. He died a month later. The Los Angeles Times has reported that the bombs used in all three cases...
...last January, the normally discreet McFarlane began grumbling about his job. He first felt shunted aside by Regan at the European economic summit last spring in Bonn. The National Security Adviser had opposed the President's visit on the same trip to a German military cemetery at Bitburg, where Nazi SS officers were buried, but Reagan went ahead with it. When Reagan was hospitalized for cancer surgery in July, the chief of staff had McFarlane present his daily security briefings to the President in writing, rather than orally. At the same time, Regan visited the President's bedside regularly...
Nearly as important as the poems themselves is the music by Oliver Messiaen. Written while a Nazi prisoner of war, Messiaen's "Quatuor pour lafin" is highly discordant and provocative. Sullivan alternates the poems' natural divisions with those in the music, imposing lengthy pauses, perhaps for speculation. The four musicians, Yoon-Sun Lee on piano, John Montgomery on clarinet, Alan Gilbert on violin and Ruth Maurice on cello are all first rate, contributing to a carefully crafted and entertaining production...