Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CABARET utilizes expressionistic techniques to re-create the frenzied, bitter gaiety of prewar Berlin. While its framing is brilliantly brassy, its moods strikingly defined, the subject matter of the book is dull and amorphous...
...without elation, faced with an evil as obvious and inarguable as evil can ever be. Even scrupulous moralists agree that World War II was the closest thing to a just war in modern times. And yet, in retrospect, the means were horrifying. The saturation bombings of Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin were designed primarily to kill and demoralize civilians. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified as taking fewer Japanese and American lives than would have been lost in an invasion. But the fact remains that the bombing of Germany and Japan obliterated the discrimination of a just...
CABARET. The prevailing mood winds in the Berlin of 1930 were blowing toward Nazism and war-not exactly the bubbly stuff of which a heady musical is made. In its re-creation of the vulgarity of the era, this musical is a success of style. But its book is vacuum-packed...
...last 21 months of the Eisenhower Administration, there were too many crises to permit any bold initiatives in Washington's dealings with either allies or foes. Soviet pressure on Berlin was a constant threat. Relations with Castro's Cuba continued to deteriorate. Laos tottered, the Congo fell apart, and Gary Powers' spy plane crashed on Soviet soil. With the U-2 fell whatever hopes Herter still held for the Paris summit conference. When he left office, one aide recalls, he was "an unhappy...
...politician -even though he fell between the poles of Brahmin Republicanism and Irish-dominated Democratic power. Son of artists, grandson of a German immigrant who prospered as an architect, Herter himself briefly studied art and architecture. He happened into diplomacy in 1916 upon hearing of an opening in the Berlin embassy. After the war, he worked for Herbert Hoover's Relief Administration in Europe and the Commerce Department in Washington before going back to Boston to write and lecture in support of internationalism. In 1930, he won his first election to the state legislature-he was never to lose...