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...discussed. France and Britain seem uninterested, and in the U.S. there is equal indifference. One reason perhaps is the recent vogue for anti-Nazi popular culture. The thud of jackboots across the bestseller lists (Armageddon, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich), the screen (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Longest Day) and the stage (The Deputy, Incident at Vichy) tends to make many Americans think of Germany in terms of its bloody past...
...tale. On Feb. 10, 1306, Bruce fell upon his principal political rival, John Comyn of Badenoch, and stabbed him to death before the altar of a village church. Crowned King at Scone, he promptly sent to warn England's Edward I that "he would defend himself with the longest stick he had." Edward, the master of a nation six times the size of tiny (pop. 400,000) Scotland, disdainfully instructed his legate in Scotland to "burn and slay and raise dragon" in the land. On June 19, at Methven field, the English scattered the rebel forces with great slaughter...
...zlotys ($1,667) went to Argentina's Martha Argerich, who won by an eyelash over Brazil's Arturo Moreira-Lima. The Polish audiences, who packed Warsaw's splendorous Philharmonic Hall for each session of the grueling three-week contest, took issue with the judges, awarded their longest, loudest ovations to 24-year-old Edward Auer (fifth) from Los Angeles, the first American ever to gain the finals in the prestigious competition for young pianists (age limit: 30). Auer captured the audience's fancy with his bashful manner and the flashy brilliance of his playing...
...class the likes of which Hamburg's Art Academy had never known. For five days, to the constant serpentine sound of Arab music, the guest lecturer, a Viennese painter named Hundertwasser, and his delighted students worked at painting the longest line in the world. It spiraled across the floor, looped up the walls, curved across the ceiling, and would have swirled out the door, but by that time the academy had dismissed Hundertwasser. The line, estimates the artist, only got to be 20 miles long...
...sessions generally begin with two-minute accountings from each of the undergraduate's half a dozen tutors, and go on to five minutes of rebuttal by the student and other colloquy on his problems. Several years ago, during what was perhaps the longest-playing ragtime on record, the chairman, after 90-odd minutes, suggested that perhaps the undergraduate was beyond salvation. "A student reflects his tutors," the boy replied, leaving the room-and the college...