Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rembrandt's The Man with the Golden Helmet, one of the most famous and most majestic portraits ever painted, now turns out to be not by Rembrandt at all. It is not a fake or a forgery, says Jan Kelch, curator of Dutch and Flemish paintings in West Berlin's Staatliche Museum, but rather "an independent original in its own right, with its own independent worth." But what is its independent worth if Rembrandt's masterpiece is not by Rembrandt? Though people who estimate such things promptly lowered its theoretical value from 20 million marks ($8 million) to about...
Matthew A. Berlin '89 says that students who grew up in Cambridge not only use the city differently, but see it as most Harvard students...
...Cambridge itself is a remarkable place," Berlin says. "The variety of life that you find here is something that most Harvard students don't know anything about. Cambridge has this particular quality to it that Harvard is just one aspect...
...very hard, I think, for a student going here, inundated with work and other students, to see that," Berlin says. "To be able to see the University from the street really gives a totally different perspective...
...decade Strindberg lived in exile (Paris, Berlin, Switzerland), and all his life he lived as a kind of pilgrim, tracking down every cracked new theory, pursuing every wild whim in the desperate hope that it might lead to the Truth. As an early modern, caught in the whirlwind and helping to agitate it, he understood that he inhabited "an age of transition"--at one moment "split and vacillating," at the next moment "urgently hysterical...