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...anticipate such confusions. First of all, the anecdote concerning Mr. Bernstein is inaccurately reported. He certainly did not call to me from across the room, but came from across the room and introduced himself to me in an extremely courteous and country manner, saying he wished to meet the "socia." My feeling of embarrassment stemmed only from an awareness that the male follows seated around me were at least as deserving of this recognition as I. (And this is, indeed, the only reason I related the anecdote). I particularly wish to correct the impression conveyed in your article that...
...Pyrrhic victories of the human spirit. He is a pantomimic accountant of the laughably saddening costs of being human. Mimicking a dynamiter, he blows himself up at pre cisely the moment when he is casually admiring his technical know-how. As a partygoer, he pirouettes through all the socia graces, only to get stupidly, staggering!) drunk. With his toes seemingly reading a tightrope in faltering braille, he teeters across the high wire, but only after the audience is made to know that courage can be the vanity of cowards. In the most affecting sketch of the evening...
Hirschfeld, an important member of the German Socia Democratic Party and recently an aide to Mayor Willy Brand of West Berlin, strongly denied Mrs. Beker's charges durin FBI interrogation in 1959 and under oath before a New York Grand Jury...