Word: berlin
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...patrician life of unimpeded success. After graduating from Harvard, Nitze amassed a fortune during the Depression as an investment banker. In government since 1940, he oversaw the creation of the Marshall Plan and the NATO Alliance; in the early '60s he helped manage U.S. responses to crises over Berlin and Cuban missiles. Some who know him suggest that Nitze is now driven to achieve an INF treaty as a sort of final professional capstone. Nitze scoffs: "I just don't give that kind of thing any thought. My problem is with the Russians. They're the subject...
Fifty years ago this Sunday, Jan. 30, 1933, when Helms was a Williams College sophomore getting ready for exams he heard that Adolf Hitler had become dictator of Germany. Two years later, in the fall of 1935, Helms was a United Press reporter in Berlin, hunched forward in his seat in the Kroll Opera House watching Hitler rant against the Versailles Treaty. "I noticed that Hitler had become rather pale," Helms recalls. "He was passing a handkerchief back and forth between his hands underneath the lectern." Suddenly Helms understood. "At this moment," Hitler shouted, "German troops are crossing the Rhine...
...conductor for life" of the fabled Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, 74, long ago grew accustomed to governing his orchestra with an autocratic hauteur that was seldom challenged. So the conductor expected no back-chair back talk when he named Sabine Meyer, 23, as the new solo clarinetist, and only the second female member in the philharmonic's 100-year history. But an overwhelming majority of the 118-member orchestra voted to oppose Von Karajan's protégée as "unsuitable" because of her alleged weakness as an ensemble performer. Outraged, the conductor coolly informed...
...wintry day in 1908, Rubinstein was alone, broke and hungry in a Berlin hotel room, his career stalled, unable to pay the rent, a love affair in tatters. He took the belt from an old robe, fastened it to a hook on the wall and put a loop around his neck. As Rubinstein pushed a chair from beneath his feet, the worn belt ripped apart and he landed in a heap on the floor. It was then, he later said, that he learned the secret of happiness: "Love life for better or for worse, without conditions...
...sense of guilt or impropriety. Their naivete is secured through solitude. News of the outside world comes, if at all, as a whisper. The local paper headlines the huge salmon caught, after a three-hour struggle, in a nearby pool, and then mentions in passing: "Allies enter Berlin-Hitler dead in Bunker-Mussolini killed by Partisans." News of atomic bombs over Japan a few months later gives the twins identical nightmares: "That their bed-curtains had caught fire, that their hair was on fire, and their heads burned down to smoldering stumps...