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...Antigonae, Scenes 4 & 5 (Christl Goltz, Hermann Uhde, Vienna Symphony and State Opera Chorus conducted by Heinrich Hollreiser; Columbia). The Sophocles tragedy of the Theban princess doomed by her father, set in a markedly individual style by Germany's popular Composer Carl Orff. Mysterious sounds, fearlessly repeated notes, stark accompaniments, apocalyptic thunderings, all add up to a powerful aural drama. Soprano Goltz tops everything with her soprano...
YOUNG TÖRLESS, by Robert Musil (217 pp.; Pantheon; $2.95), helps explain one of history's more interesting paradoxes: how a civilization outwardly, as gay and waltzy as 19th century Austria could produce the stark theories and dark case histories of Vienna's Dr. Sigmund Freud. Austria's late Novelist Robert Musil, known in the U.S. for his ponderously brilliant masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities (TIME, June 8, 1953; Nov. 15, 1954), had a sharp eye for the moral decay behind Vienna's comfy façades. His first novel, brought...
Kitchen-Table Medici. The new kind of tiger keeps his nails closely trimmed and highly polished, spreads a heavy coating of talcum over his blue-shaven jaws, wears dark blue suits bought (price range: $75-$90) at Abe Stark's Brooklyn store, has the worldly and weighted mien of a Medici, and goes by the nickname of "The Bishop." He lives in a four-room apartment furnished in a style something less than half way between 1920 Grand Rapids and 1955 Park Avenue. There, one recent morning, Carmine De Sapio was taking his own sort of grassroots samplings...
...appropriate setting for Scientist Libby. As a nuclear scientist on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, he is the man who unwrapped the stark facts about nuclear war. A "thermonuclear weapon" of the type that was exploded by the U.S. in the Pacific last year, said Scientist Libby in his famous "fallout speech" last June, can sprinkle death-dealing radioactive dust over an area of 100,000 square miles. "An area so large," he added dryly, ";that evacuation may be a bit impractical." As the AEC's "vice president in charge of atoms for peace," Libby is the American responsible...
...Wagner. By comparison with Salzburg's blaze, Bayreuth was authoritative but monochromatic. The latest style for Wagnerian opera, as set by the composer's grandsons Wieland and Wolf gang Wagner (TIME, Aug. 13, 1951, et seq. features a stage in semidarkness, moonlit landscapes, symmetrical crowd scenes and stark emphasis on the polarities of heaven and earth, man and woman, light and darkness, life and death. With their productions of all of Wagner's major works unveiled in previous seasons, the producers this time tried their hand at the youthful but never completely successful Flying Dutchman - with little...