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...novelists are getting their second wind. In two months, half a dozen or so tales of combat action have seen print. The latest, a German entry titled The Cross of Iron, is the most savagely powerful portraiture of men at war on the eastern front since Theodor Plievier's Stalingrad. Possibly because they belonged to the winning side, U.S. writers tend to see war as a personality-developing experience in which a man can forge his own identity. As a loser, the German writer must salvage for his hero both identity and meaning from a lost cause pursued beyond...
...events finally gave direction to Barlach's groping. In Florence he sat at the feet of Poet Theodor Daubler, whose rhapsodic verse, mystically urging man to free his spirit from the pull of Earth, appealed to Barlach's own yearnings. Even more important was a two-month trip to southern Russia, where Barlach, on first sighting the sturdy peasant figures against the limitless perspective, exclaimed: "Donnerwetter! There sit bronzes...
...second disappointment was the all-American cast. For once, the Met stage was peopled by young, handsome, slender performers. But their Juilliard-type excellence somehow did not thrill. Baritone Theodor Uppman tried hardest and succeeded best as Papageno, the comical birdman; partly thanks to Ruth and Thomas Martin's competent translation, he put across his role with almost Broadway-like punch. Soprano Lucine Amara (Pamina) sang beautifully, and Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) did her bell-like best despite a cold. But Tenor Brian Sullivan (Tamino) was dry-voiced and stiff-backed; Basso Jerome Hines, while...
...before the Chancellor got back to his desk after seven weeks' confinement, the Bonn government took a major step toward meeting his wishes. A new five-member Supreme Military Council was formed to assume direct operational command over West German armed forces, subject to policy directives of Civilian Theodor Blank's Defense Ministry. Chairman of the council and, in effect, postwar West Germany's chief of staff will be Lieut. General Adolf Heusinger. 58. a small (5 ft. 6 in.), sandy-haired army veteran who began his career as a cadet in World War 1, rose...
...Died. Theodor Cardinal Innitzer. 79, Archbishop of Vienna, Roman Catholic Primate of Austria since 1932, who was rebuked (1938) by Pope Pius XI for trying to appease the Nazis; of a heart attack; in Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer had the swastika raised over Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral when the Nazis marched into Austria in March 1938, discovered too late that his go-it-soft policies did not save Austrian Catholicism...