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...Sommer Specialties. For four weeks a parade of witnesses unfolded a grisly chronicle of crime that Prosecutor Paulik described as "a look into Dante's inferno." Sommer's specialties...
Gerhard Martin Sommer, the man in the wheelchair, had indeed been at Buchenwald-but not as a prisoner. As the master of the punishment cellblock between 1938 and 1943, Sommer was the broad-shouldered bullyboy who, in the words of West German Prosecutor Helmut Paulik, perpetrated "probably the most hideous group of sadistic atrocities unearthed since the war." In the camp where Use Koch, wife of the camp commandant and the "Bitch of Buchenwald." purportedly made lampshades of human skin (she is serving a life term), SS Guardsman Gerhard Martin Sommer went so far in sadism that even his Nazi...
...Advocate's April issue contains one poem which is not merely an experiment, but is also a poem-for-readers. Richard Sommer's "Three Legends for Fishes" is the finished product of a competent craftsman, and makes the rest of the issue seem unusually amateurish. Although "Legends" would not deserve the American Academy Poetry Prize which Sommer has won in his second year of graduate school, the poem nevertheless shows a consideration for the reader which is conspicuously absent from the work of most younger writers, including the other three contributors to this issue...
Almost every young writer today is more or less obsessed with demonstrating the inadequacy of the categories through which we see things. But whereas Sommer exercises his ingenuity to subvert the reality principle, the others rip aside the workaday facade of sanity with even less regard for the reader's preconceptions than a genuine madman. They destroy the grammatical and conceptual continuities on which we base our hackneyed understanding without offering anything on which to hang a new vision of things, and the result is often mere anarchy...
...named Muhammad adh-Dhib ("The Wolf") first stumbled on them just ten years ago in a cave near Qumran (he had hoped to find buried treasure), the scrolls have stirred up perhaps the most vigorous debate in Christianity since Darwin. One faction, headed by French Orientalist André Dupont-Sommer (whose views were popularized in the U.S. by Amateur Scrollman Edmund Wilson), held that the Dead Sea Community more than Bethlehem might have been the cradle of Christianity. Philologist John Allegro of Britain's University of Manchester strongly implied that the scrolls put into question the uniqueness of Jesus...