Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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, based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, is an intrusion...
Back in 1943, when bomb-torn Berlin started evacuating pregnant women to his East Prussian hospital, Dr. Emil Martens recklessly remarked to a colleague and fellow Nazi that Germany must be losing the war. The colleague...
...West Berlin TV station produced a three-hour documentary series on the country's efforts to stamp out what President Theodore Heuss had called West Germany's "unovercome" Nazi past. Dr. Martens, now a West Berlin surgeon of 71, was shown telling how he almost lost his head. Then came readily identifiable shots of Dr. Klingsiek, now a prosperous Herford physician, driving home in his Mercedes-Benz to what a Frankfurt newspaper later called his "luxurious villa." With out actually naming "this main prosecution witness" against Martens, the commentator said ironically: "As you can see, he is doing...
...symbolism and reality do not always coincide. Although the new bridge shortens the autobahn between Munich and West Berlin by 21 miles, it provides no link whatsoever between East and West Germany: the autobahn runs through a sealed corridor from which motorists cannot stray. Its inauguration, moreover, had to be accomplished without ceremony because the two governments refused to meet each other to open it. Bridge or no bridge, the truth is that the two Germanys seem to be drawing farther apart. For the first time since 1962, the Berlin Wall remained closed for Christmas this year: Bonn and Pankow...
...trouble in the house proves to be not single but multiple, and it is all wound up with the gothic flourish of an ambiguous murder. The prose in this first novel by Mary Ellin Barrett, daughter of Composer Irving Berlin, sometimes rises a little too high on its toes and ends up breathless. But the book is saved from the Venus flytrap of ladies' magazine fiction by its easy intimacy with the ambiance of those days of picnic baskets and tennis flannels. The author has a sophisticated sense of the tensions that show among even the most beautiful people...