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Peeling the Onion of Human Motivation

With intentional flicks of his paring knife, Michael Frayn gets to the imagined root of a famously unexplained meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in his play “Copenhagen.” This speculative history leads to conclusions that only could be made through bracing, dramatic dialog.  Heisenberg instigates the 1941 meeting on his visit to Nazi-occupied Copenhagen […]