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JUSTICE IN JERUSALEM, by Gideon Hausner. Prosecutor Hausner's taut account of the arrest and trial of Adolf Eichmann...
...flew into Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, his baton carving the air, his left hand kneading a softly glowing tone from the strings. In Copland's Quiet City, he moved with the sure, deft strokes of a tailor stitching a hem, weaving the complex patterns into a taut whole. The interpretations, typically, were masterpieces of lucidity and logic, and at concert's end the audience at Stanford University awarded a resounding ovation to Geneva's Ernest Ansermet and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande...
...restricted himself to a narrower vocabulary than in any other play except The Comedy of Errors. Everything is taut, economical, classical. Although the characters have their own individualities, they appear here in their public personae, and all adopt a nearly uniform neutral kind of classical forensic diction. Cicero himself has only a few words in the play, but his orations, with all their rhetorical questions, seem to have hovered over the writing of the entire drama...
...same thing CORE wants since 1927. I've sent open-occupancy legislation to our city council three times, and three times the Democrats have killed it. There are many things that need to be changed in our city, and you can help us. You can help me." Taut, trim Major General George Gelston, Baltimore's acting police commissioner, added his voice: "Look, I've only been a policeman since April, and I'm going to quit in September. All I want is to get the job done, and part of that job is maintaining the peace...
Memoirists are the musicians of history. Churchill's English eloquence thumped the drumhead of World War II into a heroic thunder with his wartime memoirs. Charles de Gaulle drew a dry bow over the taut strings of French postwar political chaos to produce his searching remembrance of things past. Now Konrad Adenauer is onstage with the first volume of his memoirs, covering the period from 1945, when Germany lay in ruins, to 1953, when the postwar Wirtschaftswunder dawned. Adenauer's instrument, not surprisingly, is a brisk and Bachlike clavier, well tempered by the author's 90 years...