Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Language Club Council deserves praise for showing here on Tuesday night the German and Russian documentaries--"Triumph des Willens" and "The Nuremberg Trials." Long as the program was, the inclusion of both films was amply justified. This doesn't mean that anyone in the audience was so carried away by the first picture that he had to be shown the horror behind its pageantry. But the deliberate unreality of the German film needed to be pointed up-- as it was--by its Russian sequel...
...cliche was neither surprising nor--for an American audience--persuasive, except for mass and length. The demonstration that the commonplace and the so-called "good German" characteristics played their part was more terrifying. Granted they did not appear in the stadium scenes, nor in the torchlight undertakings, whose purpose was to make the individual forget himself and his responsibilities in the Movement. But the act in the city itself played up the connection between the Party and German culture. Hitler was shown accepting flowers from children (blond almost without exception), shaking hands and talking with idolizing women in peasant costume...
Although his English has not yet advanced much beyond "O.K.," Perlea speaks four other languages and has no trouble at all talking to the Met musicians. "The strings and woodwinds-German: the brass-Italian: and what's left -French." He is enthusiastic about the quality of the orchestra, says it would take La Scala's orchestra six rehearsals to accomplish what the Met's can do in two. As for the rest: "Every opera performance is a compromise. If you can accomplish 15% of what you intend, you are all right; if you accomplish...
Died. Emil Jannings, 62, hulking Swiss-born German cinemactor who won Hollywood's first "Oscar" (The Way of All Flesh, 1928); of cancer; at his lakeside home in Austria. Forsaking the U.S. when talkies exposed his accent in 1929, Jannings made Nazi propaganda (Ohm Kriiger), but was denazified...
...contrast in German and Allied propaganda techniques will be shown in two motion pictures presented by the Language Club Council at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in New Lecture Hall. Tickets are available in dining halls at Harvard and Radcliffe today and tomorrow during meal hours, but will not be sold at the door...