Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis centered on the treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, which Brandt negotiated in 1970 as part of his famed Ostpolitik. The treaties have become keystones to further progress in East-West detente; other major diplomatic initiatives, including the Big Four agreement that seeks to eliminate Berlin as a source of cold war tensions, will go into effect only after the ratification of those two pacts...
BEFORE THE DELUGE: A PORTRAIT OF BERLIN IN THE 1920'S by OTTO FRIEDRICH 418 pages. Harper...
...revolution of 1918 was not a revolution but a maneuver. The Socialists took over the government and created the Weimar Republic. The real power, however, remained with the conservative army and the career bureaucrats in Berlin. It was later handed over to the political right and to Adolf Hitler. But before that happened, Berliners lived through one of history's extraordinary decades. Rid of its tasteless Hohenzollern constraints, and at the same time having avoided the constricting new dogmas of Marxist revolution, Germany blossomed intellectually. In the liberal, democratic '20s, Berlin was feverish with new ideas in atonal...
...Hannah Arendt to the long lines currently waiting to see Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. Otto Friedrich has combined history and cultural journalism to produce the most vivid portrait of the period yet written. Weaving back and forth in time and place between Marlene Dietrich and Joseph Goebbels, between Berlin and Hollywood, between 1920 memoirs and 1971 interviews, the author, who is a former managing editor of the Saturday Evening Post and now a TIME senior editor, has recreated Berlin, and his city moves...
...Communists' Easter concessions were timed to place maximum pressure on West Germany to confirm the treaties of Warsaw and Moscow, which will be submitted to the Bundestag in early May. Unless Bonn ratifies the treaties, the Berlin agreement, and its clauses about freer access, will not go into effect. Hence, the East Germans and their Soviet supporters in effect were saying: "See, this is how it is going to be if the treaties are ratified. If they aren't, forget it." The Communists have hinted that the situation will get worse if Bonn fails to follow through...