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Richard Friebe is executive editor of the German science magazine SZ Wissen...
...rational ideal had scarcely been erected before dismantling began. Schorske describes this process as both a siege and a mutiny. Disaffected peasants, artisans and Slavs, among others, began massing politically, demanding certainties and absolutes. Taking to the streets, they cared nothing for the hallowed liberal creed: "Wissen macht frei" (Knowledge makes us free). Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal saw what was happening: "Politics is magic. He who knows how to summon the forces from the deep, him will they follow." All too soon Wissen macht frei was degraded into the cruelly deceptive slogan of Nazi death camps: Arbeit [work] macht frei...
...Israel. On first reading, it seems just too simple to be really good, but the subtlety of the poem only emerges after several exposures. The translation is almost totally literal, and thus loses some of the devices which make the original succeed. An effective alliteration ("die Wande der Wiiste wissen von Liebe") is lost in translation as "the walls of the desert know of love." The strict rendering into unwieldy English detracts immeasurably from the starkness of the German. Words which can be used in German poetry, like Gestirne, or Jahrtausend, are rendered in unwieldy English words- constellation or millenium...
...heavy in the show is a much improved John Boles who makes love to a newcomer, Margaret Sullavan, with plenty of savoir and no little wissen. Miss Sullavan shows herself a capable mime. She has a certain un-Holly-woodian freshness about her, a spontaneity found all too seldom in screen stars. She delivers her lines with sparkling zest, and can look and without looking stupid. Only on the deathbed scene does she become a bit wearying. Her face is just pretty--not beautiful, but attractive. her figure is, of course, flawless, and she wears clothes as they should...
...meeting of the second year class at the Business School yesterday noon nominations were made for the position of marshal at the Commencement exercises. Those nominated were: Mathias Wissen Baker, of Providence, R. I.; Theodore Augustus Fritchie, Jr., of Olney, Illinois; Alfred Bunyan Lemon, of Cleveland, Ohio; Robert Bowser, of Richmond, Virginia; and Albert Calder James, of Jamaica Plain. The elections will probably take place immediately after the vacation...
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