Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Divorced. Grace Bumbry, 35, well-turned mezzo-soprano who progressed from Arthur Godfrey's radio show Talent Scouts to New York's Metropolitan Opera; and Erwin Andreas Jaeckel, 38, German tenor; after nine years of marriage, no children; in Berlin...
Mozart: The Wind Concertos (various soloists, the Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conductor; Angel, 3 LPs, $17.98). An exquisitely executed anthology for the Mozartean who has everything-or thinks he does. The selections range from what might be called the camaraderie concertos, the Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297b (featuring oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn) and the Flute and Harp Concerto, K. 299, to the solo works for bassoon (K. 191), flute (K. 313), oboe (K. 314) and clarinet (K. 622). Von Karajan's soloists, drawn from the Berlin Philharmonic, are superb...
...city of light becoming the city of blight? Not really. The ardent reaction is partly due to the fact that Paris remained virtually unchanged for half a century. Unlike Berlin or London, it escaped bombing during World War II and did not have to be rebuilt. Nor are Parisians like American city dwellers, who see constant demolition and construction as necessary signs of economic health. Paris remained recognizably the place described by Proust, Hemingway and Fitzgerald-stylish, intimate and lovely. That was part of its charm, and any change thus comes as a shock...
...intentions. Senior professors gradually took control, and lectures often amounted to little more than the standard German classroom scene: a snowy-haired professor reading from his next book and refusing to answer student questions. At the same time, militant students from West Germany flocked to the campus, partly because Berlin was exciting, but also because the move to Berlin exempted them from the military draft. Built for only 10,000 students, the Free University eventually grew to more than...
Similar but less sophisticated systems are at work in a number of cities from Berlin to New York to Tokyo, but the Washington program has special features. Some 450 Washington buses are now being equipped with radio transmitters that will link them to the central computer. Thus, if the driver wants to set up a series of green lights for himself, he can press a button requesting the computer to give him those signals at cross streets. If the computer, upon scanning the traffic in the area, decides that the request is justified, it will send commands to the appropriate...