Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several thousand Soviet-directed railway police yielded control of west Berlin railway stations to west Berlin police last night on order of the United States, Britain, and France. Russia protected the three-power action, which came on the fourth day of a fierce strike against the Soviet-controlled railway and elevated systems...
...Washington Embassy, Berlin's principal task was making political reports on the U.S. which were sent to London over the signature, "I. Berlin." Some of these came to Churchill's attention, and when another I. Berlin, better know as a composer than a political analyst, visited London during the War, the Prime Minister decided to entertain him at lunch. There are numerous versions of the meeting, but no official account has been published. It is said that Irving Berlin departed much complimented by the trust that Churchill put in his opinions on American affairs. But the Prime Minister had somewhat...
After assisting in the preparation of the report on the Marshall Plan Conference in Paris in 1947, Berlin returned to Oxford, his permanent location. Though Harvard wanted him for a year, he refused to be lured away from New College for more than one term. He is now living in Lowell House, where he has become something of a legend. Since only those sitting next to him can make any sense out of his speeding talk, there is no little scramble for the advantageous positions at High Table. His enormous popularity among Cambridge society, his three or four-hour conversations...
About his students here and at Oxford, Berlin says, "Very serious, very earnest, very earnest indeed, but only want answers. Don't care about method. Why do I bother leading them round in a maze. Want to know what's good, what's bad. Students in 'twenties drank too much, too gay, didn't work hard enough, but wanted problems. No rush, no short-cuts...
...Berlin likes General Education, but hopes it will never have a faculty of its own. He respects the graduate school system and thinks that more should be done in England in that direction. Lastly he praises Harvard's "universal passion for music. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven everywhere--wonderful." But Isaiah Berlin is going back to let the hostesses of London tear each other part over him and teach philosophy at Oxford...