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...once proud centers of learning are, for the most part, hopelessly moribund. Autocratic professors are still kings in their own classrooms, and students complain bitterly about the irrelevance of many lectures. A history student, for example, can study for five years without hearing a single lecture on the Third Reich. Undergraduates receive little or no personal guidance from undermanned faculties: the University of Hamburg has fewer than 200 teachers to handle 20,000 students; "seminars" are sometimes jammed by 400 students, lectures...
...York Composer Steve Reich taped a short phrase from a Harlem boy's account of a riot, played it back stereophonically so that the words ("Come out to show them") gradually expand spatially from one to eight channels, creating a 13-minute study in mounting obsession. On other disks, Composer Henri Pousseur blends voices and taped sounds to make an airy sound-picture of the Belgian city of Liège, while Pauline Oliveros and Toshi Ichyanagi create broad, abstruse patterns by tinkering electronically with the sounds of chorus, organ and strings...
Picking Furniture. Jailed as an enemy of the Third Reich, in 1943, Bonhoeffer was allowed to receive visits by Maria, who took him books, laundry and food. She once arrived lugging a huge Christmas tree, causing considerable laughter among the guards. Bonhoeffer "remarked that maybe if he moved his cot out of his cell and stood up for the Christmas season he could accommodate the tree comfortably." Although suspected of treason, Bonhoeffer retained the hope that he would eventually be freed, encouraged Maria to plan ahead for their marriage. "It helped him to envision a specific piece of furniture...
...prize for physics went to Hans Albrecht Bethe, 61, mainly for discoveries during the 1930s concerning the energy production of stars. A German-born scientist who fled the rising Third Reich and who has been teaching at Cornell University since 1935, Bethe (pronounced Baytuh) theorized that the inordinate energy emitted by stars results from two protracted nuclear processes during which hydrogen fuses into helium. Similar research placed Bethe in the front rank of atomic-era scientists such as Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer who gave birth to the Abomb...
Stigma of Extremism. Word of Morgenthau's Draconian design leaked to the press. Goebbels began exhorting the Reich to fight even harder in the face of defeat, since Germans had nothing to lose by death; Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey claimed that Morgenthau's plan had given Hitler as much of a boost as "ten fresh German divisions." Roosevelt, who at one point had mused that it might be good to return Germany to the homespun-wool economy of Dutchess County in 1810, backed warily away from both the plan and its author. F.D.R. nonetheless adhered...