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...small footlocker, begins with a vaguely Brooksian premise: Hitler was "an ordinary, walking, talking human weighing some 155 pounds, with graying hair, largely false teeth, and chronic digestive ailments.'' He was not, Irving continues, the lone maniac exclusively responsible for bringing down European civilization in Götterdämmerung. This singular chronicle of World War II displays a quiet and sometimes fascinating empathy for its subject, viewing the battle maps as they looked to the Führer in his dank bunkers with their mosquitoes and their fanged names-"Werewolf," "Wolfs Lair." Irving describes Hitler...
...crisis meeting in New York. Eighteen teams compete in the N.H.L., some subsidiaries of large conglomerates. No significant cash appeared, and at length the owners could not decide whether to bury the Barons quietly to Chopin or more dramatically to Siegfried's funeral music from Götterdämmerung...
Wagner knew exactly what he was doing at Bayreuth. Heard in quick succession, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure and Siegfried have a staggering cumulative effect. By the tune one settles in for the 4½-hour finale, Die Götterdämmerung, the ear reverberates with leitmotivs; and Wagner's gods, earthlings, dwarfs and dragons seem familiar, necessary, among the mind's permanent emotional reference points. One gasps at the death of Siegfried, even if he is the sort who will take a drink from anybody. One worships Brünnhilde as the lover and idealist...
Porter does well with Brünnhilde's noble, ardent "Willst du mir Minne schenken" sung to Siegfried in Götterdämmerung. Wagner wrote...
...gentle slide of the pound had been viewed by many economists as a healthy means of erasing some of the trading disadvantages created by the differing rates of inflation between Britain and its competitors. But now the slide was clearly threatening to become a financial Götterdämmerung. Said one Cabinet minister: "Nothing can concentrate Harold's mind more quickly than a fall in the pound...