Word: wagnerism
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...Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music, just as his cruel "medical experiments" defiled science and his whole life defiled philosophy. He defiled Germany...
...Franz Stangl, who was allegedly responsible for the deaths of some 400,000 victims at the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps. Stangl had been living under his own name, and was working at a local Volkswagen plant when he was arrested. Eleven years later, Stangl's assistant, Gustav Franz Wagner, accused of involvement in the killing of more than 250,000 at Treblinka and Sobibor, was discovered following a police raid on a party of former Nazis celebrating Hitler's birthday. The Brazilian Supreme Court refused, in turn, bids by West Germany, Poland, Austria and Israel to extradite him. Wagner...
Norris is not magnetic; he does not even have the freak appeal of Mr. T. His / popularity, all in all, is curious. The hard-core audience does appreciate his athletic bona fides. Also, says Code of Silence Producer Raymond Wagner, "he's an enormously nice human being, and that can be sensed on the screen." Norris indeed seems like a nice guy: married for 26 years, doting father of two loving sons, loyal to his friends. "The character I want to build," he said last week during the filming of Invasion U.S.A., "is a man who believes in the right...
...philosopher an awakened appreciation for primitive wisdom, the original versus the classic in poetry. Herder and Schelling are seen as the primary influences on Novalis's later search for a universal religion. He also discover overlays of Oriental motifs and values in "The Iranian Nieztsche" and "The Buddhism of Wagner...
...freedom. Black Harvardians have an opportunity to share the tradition of John Quincy Adams who defended the Black liberation, Cinque, of the absolutionists Emerson, Longfellow and Thoreau. Robert could Shaw volunteered to lead the Black 54th Massachusetts regiment into battle and was killed in a bloody assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. Shaw was buried in a mass grave with his slain troops. His family wrote. "He could have no finer honor...