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...contrast, J. W. von Goethe, the German Shakespeare (who is not terribly popular in England, the U.S., Australia, Canada or New Zealand), ran a poor second. In the three countries, 86 theaters staged his plays last season in 1,980 performances. The chief reason is A. W. von Schlegel, a German writer whose stunning translations of Shakespeare were completed in 1840. He was such an accomplished poet himself that people who know both languages often claim that the German versions of Shakespeare's plays are better than the originals...
Near a police substation at Arlington he ordered Roberts to stop. Ray Schlegel, an aircraft worker, Schlegel's wife, eight-month-old baby and cousin were approaching in a car. Swancutt waved the Schlegels down. He was ordering them out of the car just as Policemen E. F. Cole and A. B. Simpson dashed up with guns drawn...
Again the wild-eyed Swancutt opened fire. Two bullets landed in Schlegel's chest, two hit Policeman Simpson, who kept firing as he fell. Policeman Cole, a pistol marksman, blazed away. That was the end of the rampage. Swancutt was lugged off to a hospital, charged with murder, held for a military trial...
...this rather debatable conception of German history. He has found in the Romantic movement of the nineteenth century both a detour from the main path of Western rationalism and the roots of Nazi philosophy. Romanticism, Viereck believes, is the expression of maladjustment. Whatever its various forms, whether Thoreau or Schlegel, Romanticism is the rebellion of those who can't solve their problems in the forms society prescribes. Ardent seekers after "the full life" may be a Faust or a white collar girl reading pulp magazines. "Freud after all had a word for it," Viereck comments shrewdly. Considering the ancient psychological...
...Teutonic ears, its lyric lines in the classical August Wilhelm von Schlegel translation sound more like Schimpfwort (invective) than Shakespeare. Sample...