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Written by modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht and an allegory for the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany, this work marks not only the resistible rise of Arturo Ui but also the rise of a direction/production trio. The three have done several other productions together in the past, including last year's hit The 5th of July, are good friends and they even live in the same entry way of Leverett House. But all agree that the sheer logistics of a mainstage production require a different approach...
...framers to cool passions for change, is by most accounts a good thing. A constitution is supposed to be a tightly knit plan of government, not an open statute book. Bulk can even be an inverse indication of its power: the 181 articles in the constitution of the Weimar Republic were the Maginot Line of German democracy. "It's dangerous to amend the Constitution too much," says Columbia University Law Professor Vincent Blasi. "It won't have the look of fundamental...
Thus, Yale History Professor Peter Gay, the eclectically erudite author of such embracing works as The Enlightenment and Weimar Culture, reaches far and wide to define his new subject, the emotional life of the middle classes in the 19th century. It is a challenging subject, and Gay challenges it with polymathic verve. In his first volume, The Education of the Senses, Gay concentrated on sex and demonstrated in exhaustive detail that despite what many people think about the Victorian era, nice girls did it then too. Now, in the second volume of a prospective six, he turns to the slightly...
...also invented a new surname by appending Rohe, his mother's maiden name. (Less is more be damned: in German, mies means lousy, more or less.) Mies van der Rohe, invigorated by Weimar Berlin, spent most of the 1920s designing gorgeous industrial exhibits and handsome, blocky villas descended from Frank Lloyd Wright. Well into the decade, however, Mies the modernist was not scrupulously practicing what he preached: a neo-Georgian country house appeared as late...
...20th century rumbles to an end, American designers' enduring fascination with Tomorrow has revived. But Tom Swift is dead. This time around, the fashionably conceived future involves a certain cultivated disillusion, a kind of callow, teasing Weimar dread. The thrill is gone...