It was like some German Expressionist play: the white room, the three men in robes on this high dais; men (in black suits and narrow ties, with heavy-framed glasses, often balding) rushing back and forth with papers; and the man - in black suit, heavy-framed glasses, balding - sitting in a glass box, plugged into his headphones. Like an Expressionist play, too, the trial of Adolph Eichmann - which began today in 1961 - veered giddily between extreme formality and raw emotion, between...