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Partch's galloping whimsy-the very thing that has made him an admirably tireless pioneer-has also kept him a hopeless, penniless outsider all his life He conjures up such titles as Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball 1 earn in the Shower Room and Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet), and when he talks about his work he makes it desperately clear that he is working beyond the reach of his vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer...
...modern times, 9,400,000 ethnic Germans were abruptly expelled from Communist Europe, snowed up in West Germany in tattered covered wagons and with empty rucksacks. After the Iron Curtain snapped shut, 3,600,000 more Germans made their way West and heightened the crisis. The new arrivals were penniless, homeless and embittered. In the immediate postwar days, West Germans themselves were not much better off. The fierce competition between natives and "aliens" for jobs or even a roof created an explosive climate of mutual recrimination. It seemed as if the shaky new democracy, digging out of the wreckage...
...most refugees have good jobs, and some who arrived penniless now own thriving businesses. Thousands have married West Germans and raised families. Major indicator that the onetime aliens now consider themselves real West Germans is the collapse of the Refugee Party, which once had 27 seats in the Bundestag. It has had no national voice since 1957; last month in Lower Saxony, where refugees comprise about 25% of the population, it polled a scant 3.7% of the vote during state elections. Says Hans Koplitz, a Sudeten German who now owns a prosperous laundry and dry-cleaning establishment in Munich...
...plot is a palingenesis of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Like Raskolnikov, the hero (Martin La Salle) is a penniless student with Nietzschean notions about crime: "Some men are stronger and more talented than others and have the right to break the law. Their crimes revitalize society." Such thoughts impelled Raskolnikov to murder; they inspire Michel to pick pockets. The crimes differ in seriousness, but not in spiritual effect. In both cases, the crime compels the hero to experience successively sin, guilt, despair, contrition, atonement, love...
...there is respite to her loneliness: in the grubby lodging house where she creeps to wait out her time, she meets a penniless young writer (Tom Bell) and falls in love. Leslie lives in a dingy cubbyhole under the eaves, an L-shaped chamber sliced out of a larger room by a flimsy partition; beyond this wall lives a Negro musician (Brock Peters). For a while Leslie manages to keep the fact of her pregnancy from her lover. But the musician, eaten with jealousy, tells him that he has heard her being sick in the mornings. Secrets are hard...