Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this was a prelude to a weekend of climactic demonstrations. On Saturday some 700,000 West Germans massed in four cities-Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart and West Berlin-in an act of dissent they hoped would mark a turning point in their nation's history. On that same day in London, upwards of 200,000 Britons marched through the streets to a rally in Hyde Park. In Vienna, Stockholm, Rome, Paris, Dublin, Helsinki, Brussels and Madrid, as well as in dozens of towns and cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, the worldwide peace movement stretched its legs and shouted...
...Isaiah Berlin's memorable essay on Tolstoy, The Hedgehog and the Fox, begins with a fragment of Greek verse: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing...
...Europe was one of deep worry. As Stefano Silvestri of Rome's Institute for Foreign Affairs put it, the tone of Andropov's reply seemed "to suggest the bad temper of Khrushchev at the beginning of the '60s, and that of course brings memories of the Berlin crisis, the Cuban missile crisis and all the rest." Against that gloomy backdrop, it was tempting last week to conclude that as relations with the Soviet Union deteriorated, the Ad- ministration was playing its China card, cozying up to the world's most populous nation and the U.S.S.R...
...towering names that could have been included here are not, either because they are mentioned elsewhere in this issue or because their appearances occurred in particularly news-heavy years. (TIME'S cover story on Stravinsky, for example, came out in 1948, the year that also brought the Berlin airlift and the creation of Israel.) In addition, only one representative has been chosen for each of half a dozen different arts. The The names that survived these tests all made news that stayed news...
...five minutes before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually in motion toward the Czech border which they were to cross at 2 p.m., Il Duce in Rome rang up Chancellor Hitler at Berlin and they talked for 45 minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt...