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...AGGRESSION, by Konrad Lorenz. In this fascinating natural history of violence, a celebrated Austrian naturalist traces the all-too-human passion of aggression to its roots in the lower phyla and finds there an inherent (and hopefully inherited) capacity to transform aggression into love...
Disease & Distress. The Austrian-born surgeon has operated on more than 500 patients for a variety of developmental defects and for conditions resulting from injuries. Some of his "before" photographs showed such startling malformations that they distressed even the military surgeons, but the "after" pictures showed astonishingly attractive repairs...
BEETHOVEN: DIABELLI VARIATIONS (RCA Victor). Thirty-three variations on a waltz by the Austrian composer Anton Diabelli pose a formidable test for the virtuoso talents of 32-year-old John Browning. Much talked about but seldom performed, they strain the pianist's technical mastery and his emotional ambience. Browning, who is one of the best of the "percussive" school, passes the technical trials splendidly, but in the melancholy later variations, when he should be exploring Beethoven's darker nature, he appears to be marking time before the florid finale...
...still another public bid for understanding, the President saw to it last week that Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright, one of his most bitter adversaries on the Viet Nam issue, was invited to a White House reception for visiting Austrian businessmen. When Fulbright came up to shake hands, the President beamed warmly, chatted cheerfully with the chairman for a few minutes while cameramen snapped away, then steered Fulbright into his private office for a few more minutes of talk. The White House later leaked broad hints that the two had resolved their pent-up differences-though only...
...Nevertheless, Hitler was represented, if unofficially, at the conference in Evian-les-Bains, a French spa near the Swiss border. His emissary was Dr. Heinrich von Neumann, a Viennese Jew, who arrived on a strange and cold-blooded mission: to offer for sale, at $250 a head, 40,000 Austrian Jews...