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Big Saxon. The Teutonic barbarians who crumpled the remains of the decaying Roman Empire were often reported to have been big men. Last week a group of British amateur diggers found the bones of a fifth-century Saxon who was big indeed, if not monstrous.
THE TWELVE PICTURES, by Edith Simon (367 pp.; Putnam; $3.95), is bathed in eerie, sth century Teutonic mists as British Novelist Simon (The Golden Hand) retells the dark, doom-laden Nibelungenlied. The events in it are drawn from somewhat different sources from the ones Wagner used in his familiar brooding...
Louis' chief handicaps were two: 1) his eyes were in the back of his head, i.e., he dreamed too much of his uncle's example; 2) he had hardly a vestige of his uncle's genius. Of all the Bonapartes, probably none looked so unlike the family...
As the concert began, the reasons for the success of the work practically hammered at the listeners' ears: this kind of music sounded big and flashy without forcing the audience out of its after-dinner stupor. The chorus sang the simplest kind of melody, from mild love lyrics and...
Nowhere (not even in the bureaucratic honeycombs of Washington, D.C.) is the balance between pay, position, privilege and office furniture so carefully monitored as it is in West Germany's orderly civil service. Last week, Adenauer's pfennig-pinching Minister of Finance Fritz Schaffer issued a directive to...