Word: berlin
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...crisis began building long before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The fundamental problem is that an ideology based on 19th century industrial relations has lost its meaning in a world where the nature of class and work has changed. The conditions that gave birth to socialism have ceased to exist. The improved lot of European workers -- rising prosperity, upward social mobility, increased access to property -- has lifted most of them into the middle class and deprived socialist parties of their natural electoral base. "As a result of economic changes, the working class all over the West has been shrinking...
...carpal tunnel syndrome, progressive degeneration of the nerves and repetitive stress syndrome have struck a number of pianists, most prominently Gary Graffman and Leon Fleisher. Graffman, a dazzling stylist whose troubles began when he first sprained the fourth finger on his right hand while playing an unresponsive instrument in Berlin, has been a left- handed pianist since 1979. Fleisher, a towering performer whose 1958-62 cycle of Beethoven concertos with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra remains a pinnacle of modern recordings, first noticed a loss of feeling in his right hand at the peak of his career...
...contributions to the performing arts. On a mission to express his ideas of global tolerance and, more importantly, acceptance, he has choreographed and performed various works in nations all over the world. Commissioned by such modern dance and ballet companies as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Boston Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet and Diversions Dance Company, Jones has demonstrated a solid commitment to diversity and complete social freedom. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company...
Atrocities dominate the larger scale of events in the book. The Nazis originally trained the dogs that attacked June; their presence evokes all the horrors of World War II. Neo-fascist skinheads savage Bernard when he visits Berlin to see the Wall come down. The novel addresses the depths of hatred and spite to which the world often descends. On a personal scale, the narrator himself is both protected by a benign intuition, which saves him from a scorpion's bite, and seized by loathing so intense that he quietly breaks a stranger's nose. In just such an unassuming...
...When the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union deconstructed and freedom swept across the old communist bloc, American foreign policy analyst Francis Fukuyama offered a much discussed thesis about what he called "the end of history," wherein, with communism gone, the world's civilization would settle upon a kind of sun-splashed plateau of democratic pluralism and free- market rationalism. One of the worst dangers in the post-Fukuyama world might be boredom, a fitful cultural unease...