Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conspiracy of individuals than of circumstances. It is not being nourished by would-be world conquerors or old Wehrmacht leaders meeting in secret underground. It is being nourished by the Soviet-zone concentration camps, which are no more decent than those of the Nazis, by the Soviet blockade of Berlin, by the division of Germany, by the inescapably antidemocratic machinery of military occupation, by the bitter polemics between East & West, by divisions among the Western powers that keep them from forming a coherent policy of their own. It is born of the whole series of tragedies which have whittled down...
...Democrat, 64, grizzled, tough and thirsting for revenge. "Would I fight!" he exclaimed. "Give me the chance! All three million of us are waiting for the war-that is the only way we can get back our land. Give us the arms-and we will drive the Russians from Berlin before they can even lace their boots!" Loud though it rings, the voice of Jilka is not yet speaking for Germany, nor even for that nationalism which is resurgent. That could happen if the agony of today's intellectual confusion lasts many years more...
...good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...
...studied in Berlin as a child, and even made a concert debut, but he stopped taking lessons when he was ten. When the Nazis came to power, he went to Australia on a tour and stayed there, giving concerts and perfecting, among other things, his high-elbow bowing technique. In 1941, he came to the U.S., got a job as concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra-and gave the Bartok concerto its U.S. premiere. When Cleveland's Conductor Artur Rodzinski took over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in 1943, he asked Tossy to play it again. That was the beginning...
...Booth. For one thing, he was apt to be shy in a crowd; for another, what he really wanted to be was a musician. A competent piano and accordion player already, he hopes "to pick up some day in the musical comedy composing field where Cole Porter and Irving Berlin leave off." But with his long fingers Tony Lavelli could flick basketballs through hoops better than anybody in the collegiate game...