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These at least are Rehder and Twaddell's preliminary and tentative observations. A bustling, active country: trains come and go; Kinos start; hundreds of Wiener Schnitzels (auch etwas Salat) are consumed at every meal. And the people talk about all of these things freely, and with a morbid intensity. And yet Rehder and Twaddell are not blinded by this voluble happiness; honest men that they are, they have recorded other more ominous conversations. Consider this exchange (found in chapter...
...only fault I find with Le Crime is Jean Wiener's music. Periodically, gypsy violins accompany a street quarrel or an earthy seduction, which is like covering a turnip with strudel dough...
Splendor in the Grass (Warner). Director Elia Kazan, who for about 20 years has exerted a powerful but often Freudulent influence on the art and ethos of the U.S. stage and screen, is a man who believes that every slice of life is a Wiener Schnitzel. The theory works pretty well with the plays of Tennessee Williams, which Kazan perennially directs, because most of Williams' characters are merely engaged in a morbid game of tag your id. It works less well with the plays of William Inge, which Kazan occasionally directs, because most of Inge's characters have...
...twelve-year-old," insists his mother, who feels that "you couldn't drum all this into a child if he didn't want it." She hoped to get Lance into Harvard, cradle of child prodigies from Cotton Mather, who entered at twelve, to Cyberneticist Norbert Wiener, who was a graduate student at 14. But Harvard now looks askance at taking freshmen under 16. Caltech also rejected Lance because of his age (but will consider him as a graduate student...
...streamline E.N.I.'s petroleum distribution system, Mattei is building a pipeline from Genoa to Switzerland and on beyond into West Germany. He also plans a line from Venice to Wiener Neustadt in Austria, only 40 miles from the terminus of a projected Soviet line. Rumors-which Mattei neither confirms nor denies -have it that he plans to link his system directly to the Soviets...