Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trim, athletic-looking man, dressed entirely in grey, stepped from a West Berlin taxi near a checkpoint at Heinrich-Heine-Strasse. He beckoned to an East German border guard, exchanged a few words with him, and then hurried across the border into East Berlin. The man was not a defector or a spy. He was a high-ranking West German official who carried in his black briefcase an important letter from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger to Premier Willi Stoph of East Germany...
...same manner they viewed Premier Khrushchev's promise to "bury" us in the late 1950s. This is not to say that most Americans attach the same importance to a jungle outpost 10,000 miles away they do to the holding of the holding of the garrison in West Berlin...
...personal taste and condition. The apocalyptic view has, of course, many supporters, most notably those of the newly emergent left who foresee a period of right wing oppression and excess, followed by the triumph of a new ideology. This will seem absurd to anyone who has never visited East Berlin. The more sanguine view will commend itself to those who would like to think it so, and this, as I say, is largely a matter of taste and condition. Such would include, almost without exception, the condition of anyone who in this day is a member of Americans for Democratic...
...film starts with a hypothetical Communist attack on West Berlin. The British government declares a state of national emergency, and the scene changes to Rochester to see how people react. And they react like animals. A beefy homeowner proudly points to his homemade sandbag shelter and, lying next to it, a shotgun for use on neighbors who try to push their way in. (The average family, as building contractors and lumber dealers push up prices, can afforod one sandbag and a few boards...
...have a role in any of them. Lest he seem totally idle, he will direct the New York version, hop over to London occasionally to watch Sir John Gielgud direct that company, shove on to France to listen in on his own translation, and maybe catch the productions in Berlin and Diisseldorf for a change of pace. "It's bad," said Ustinov. "I'll be living in airplanes. But at least I won't have to play Wednesday matinees...