HOW THEY LIVED
Vienna
CLOAK & DAGGER
Most spy activities in the world famous capital are legal—and at times can seem designed to make a quick getaway.
LOST MASTERPIECE
As Hitler was brooding in prison, a film hinting at the portending devastation for Jews was released in Austria. And then it went missing for nearly a century.
We Still Got It
People talk about the decline of U.S. influence. But go to Europe, and you’ll notice something quick: No other country has the chutzpah we do when it comes to starting new companies.
In 1913 the great royals of Europe gathered for a wedding. A year later they were at war. What happened? Jacob Heilbrunn on a new history the world tottering on the brink of madness.
BRAINIAC
In his new book The Age of Insight, the memory biologist Eric Kandel studies the art of Vienna, where he fled from the Nazis when he was 9. Jimmy So talks to the Nobel winner.
Last night, Julie Andrews hosted PBS's Great Performances: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2010. In this clip, conductor Georges Prêtre leads the Philharmonic through Strauss' "One Heart, One Mind" while a pair of star dancers from the Paris Opera Company flit through the antiquities section of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.