Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Directions calls "The Cannibal" a novel "halfway between nightmare and myth." Hawkes has taken a decaying German village, Spitzen-on-the-Dein, and used its rubble as a stage-set for a fever-dream, and for a series of enlarged, fore-shortened images which obstinately refuse to tie into the story...
...preoccupied with decay, with the rust on an abandoned gun or the fungus on a dead soldier. He is preoccupied with disgust, with the technical details of wringing a chicken's neck or the inept skinning of a fox. He is preoccupied with the warriors and valkyries of the German folk-myths...
...stay home very long: Hitler and the German army had also headed for Czechoslovakia. Firkusny went to Paris, forgot his successes as a onetime child prodigy, and began to grow up. Through the war he worked and played in benefits for the Czech government-in-exile. In 1941 Manhattan concertgoers heard him again, playing Chopin with the poise and maturity of a master...
...Matthew Passion (Elfriede Troetschel, soprano; Diana Eutrati, contralto; Friedrich Haertel, bass; D. Fi-scher-Dieskau, baritone; Helmut Kreps, tenor; Boys' Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, the augmented choir and orchestra of the Berlin Radio, Fritz Lehmann conducting; Vox, 8 sides LP). One of the first postwar German recordings. Bach's great score is unabridged, the orchestra and chorus are fine, the soloists are good. Recording: excellent...
...ancient, almost universal legend, the tale pops up in 16th Century German literature, was popularized by Charles Perrault's 17th Century French version, which Disney credits as the movie's source...