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...sided as one half of a telephone call. Yet they make clear what Beethoven was thinking about, and where he occasionally wrote in the books himself-usually for a comment that he did not want others in the room to overhear-the blunt style is unmistakable. Nephew Karl brings home a somewhat seedy friend, and Beethoven jots down: "I don't like your choice of this friend at all. Poverty deserves sympathy, but not without exceptions...
Strangely, one witness to Ingwerson's will was Zdenek Cerveny, Thomas Riha's nephew. Cerveny now denies witnessing the will. He also says that Galya instructed him to help dispose of Riha's property after his disappearance, and now believes that his uncle is dead. And it was Cerveny who filed the only official complaint in the Riha case-a belated missing-persons report last October. Another minor beneficiary of Ingwerson's will, Barbara Ebert, also a friend of Galya's, died last September, also of cyanide poisoning...
...unnamed clergyman reports the arrest and torture of a devout young woman identified only as Tereza, presumably for activities in a Catholic youth group. She was raped repeatedly by policemen, he says. Three of her teen-age nephews, including a mentally retarded boy, were also beaten; a fourth nephew was forced to beat his aunt...
...butt, a chance survivor of a Nazi mass burial, an alumnus of a guerrilla band. Earlier, during a period of happiness and snug snobbery, he was a journalist in London, a member of the Bloomsbury literary set. Now he is old, a friend and pensioner of his middle-aged nephew, a wealthy New York gynecologist named Gruner. He is tall, dried, durable, with a floppy great hat. A fast and arrogant walker who can part a sea of taxis with a furled umbrella...
...scene. Present sensitively integrates the bawdiness of a peasant-soldier and the fresh poignancy of a boy in love for the first time, which on the face of it would seem impossible. He shows his versatility in the second act as a sniveling aspirant to the judgeship, the pathetic nephew of the Fat Prince (Harvey Cushing). Cushing comes across with a very funny performance in his own right as a Mikado-like royal butt-licker/petty intriguer...