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...Josef Mengele, 61, whom Anne Frank called the "angel of extermination," became notorious for his medical experiments at Auschwitz. It was he who separated those who would go to the gas chamber from those who would go to labor camps. Mengele slipped through the hands of the Allies after the war and lived in relative peace in his home town of Günzburg, Bavaria, until 1953, when hints of his crimes began to surface. He fled to Argentina and openly practiced medicine in Buenos Aires. In 1959, when the West German government obtained an indictment and moved to extradite...
Mozart, Violin Concertos Nos. 1 to 5, Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364 (and other works) (David Oistrakh, soloist and conductor, Berlin Philharmonic; Angel, 4 LPs, $23.92). The riddle of the Sphinx is nothing compared with the mystery of Mozart interpretation. How else explain the existence of so many otherwise great men of music (Horowitz, Stokowski, to name but two) among the ranks of failed Mozarteans? David Oistrakh is emphatically not one of them. His playing (that curvaceous tone especially) has a touch of the romantic, but not enough to tarnish the piquant bloom of youth that imbues...
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (Tenor Jon Vickers, Soprano Helga Dernesch, Soprano Christa Ludwig, Baritone Walter Berry, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Angel, 5 LPs, $29.90). What a cast of performers! What a disappointment! Given Karajan's past flair for Wagner, not to mention stalwart Tenor Vickers as Tristan, this could well have been, the stereo statement of Wagner's endless paean to adultery. Instead, it is merely a smooth, workmanlike job, hampered by Dernesch's inability to make Isolde alive enough so that her death is significant. The record is also marred by the cavernous, "first...
...unbroken fratricide through all succeeding ages. In Miller's version, Lucifer incites Cain in the hope of establishing dominion over men on earth, comparable to God's rule in heaven. Thus man is in perpetual thrall to a power struggle between God and the Angel of Darkness, or to the conflicting forces of good and evil within himself...
...groups marched outside the courtroom in the suburb of Bobigny until police broke up the demonstrations with nightsticks. The court acquitted Marie-Claire because she had been subjected to such "moral, social and material pressures" that she had no other choice. But the authorities continued the prosecution of the angel maker and of the other women as accomplices. The defense responded by attacking France's anti-abortion law, which forbids the operation except to save a woman's life. Nobel-prizewinning Biochemist Jacques Monod testified that, in his opinion, a fetus only a few weeks old could...