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a coruscating epilogue to fin-de-siècle Vienna

—p.127 Black Danube (117) by George Steiner

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Austria's unctuous burial of its thoroughly Nazi past

—p.126 Black Danube (117) by George Steiner

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an instrument wholly fitted to its excoriating purpose

—p.124 Black Danube (117) by George Steiner

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In front of Hitler, an anti-master of the word more ruthless than he was--an actor, mountebank, declaimer more mesmerizing--Kraus fell silent.

—p.122 Black Danube (117) by George Steiner

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That there was within Kraus a jealously guarded arcadia--a shy, tensed love of certain Bohemian and Alpine retreats--is certain.

—p.118 Black Danube (117) by George Steiner

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