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Luigi Nono is a gentle man - until provoked. Then, he says, he writes music. Provoked by "neo-Nazism," the "Algerian struggle for liberty" and racial discrimination, among other things, he composed Intolleranza 1960, an opera of social protest that has done some wholesale provoking of its own. Its première in Venice four years ago was interrupted by a hail of stink bombs from the gallery and cries of "This opera makes me sick!" Nono's followers shouted back "Cretins!" "Dirty Fascists!" in a riotous uproar that even for Italy was, as one critic shuddered, "as ugly...
Junk Show. While curators from Aachen to Zweibrücken eagerly await the disposition of the finest work, at least one government-endowed research foundation in Germany would like to get its hands on the junk. Munich's Institute for Contemporary History is attempting a scientific analysis of Nazism, and one of its pet ideas is a public exhibit of what Hitler liked. The last time art was displayed in Germany for such unartistic reasons was the infamous 1938 degenerate art show-composed of what Hitler did not like...
Dame Rebecca is on firmer ground when she writes about the Communist traitors, who were more knowing and rational than the Nazis. She makes a sharp distinction between the seedy, out-of-sorts types who were attracted to Nazism as an answer to their personal bitterness and the more self-controlled, often scientifically skilled persons who joined the Communists for ideological reasons. The Communist "network of perceptions and association and interpretations," she writes, "made the Nazi-Fascists seem like hogs rooting among the simple, unimproved beech mast of the world." She also makes the cogent point that the well-publicized...
...better tale of espionage. The quarrel is with the "meaning" she assigns this espionage. Because Klaus Fuchs is a scientist and intellectually arrogant, she suggests that all scientists are peculiarly prone to treason. Because most of the traitors did not be lieve in God, she suggests that Communism or Nazism is the only alternative to faith in God. She is perfectly correct in charging the West, and Great Britain in particular, with egregious laxity in letting Communist spies steal so many atomic secrets. But she is on treacherous ground indeed when she says that this handful of traitors...
Turning to the problem of Hitler's rise to power, Shirer said, "It is a mistake to think that Nazism was a minority movement in Germany. The Hitler regime had the support of an overwhelming majority of the German people...