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Concerts at the United Nations often include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which ends with the choral affirmation of Schiller's Ode to Joy: "All mankind shall be brothers . . ." The U.N. was founded 25 years ago on that dream. Disillusionment over its failure to achieve this goal has become a permanent feeling, like a chronic toothache...
...that reality was made evident by one of the oldest diplomatic devices-a protocol snub. On the final evening of the eleven-day anniversary observance, President Nixon is pinching the visiting U.N. heads of state for a White House dinner. At any rate, when Zubin Mehta conducts the Ninth, Schiller's prophecy will still be unfulfilled...
...social and economic conditions differed immeasurably from the Germany of the pre-Hitler period, and took up Kosygin's proposal that the two governments make immediate plans for economic and technical cooperation and for the financing of major industrial projects. Brandt will send Economics Minister Karl Schiller and Education and Science Minister Hans Leussink to Moscow for talks next month...
...Killing has two parts (not to mention a disappointing "8 Pages of Photographs"). The book begins with a narrative of the case's history, as written by Lawrence Schiller, a journalist of questionable credentials. The book's second half consists of the recollections of one of the accused murderers, Susan Atkins...
...Schiller's contribution to this tome is eminently disposable, unless you missed all the newspaper accounts of the crime last summer. His sociological points are mainly vulgarizations of important issues of the case that have already been discussed more intelligently in such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. (Some of Schiller's ramblings, though, do have a sick sense of humor about them: "It was a satanic whim which sent [the Manson tribe to the Polanski home]. But Mr. and Mrs. Middle America need not be smug. That whim could have been saved for their house...