Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time. He was born in Cassel, Germany, to a comfortable, culturally assimilated family; only a great-uncle was a dedicated, religious Jew. Rosenzweig's real interests as a young man were intellectual: first medicine, then later, at the universities of Freiburg and Berlin, such studies as literature, classical languages, philosophy, history and political theory...
...Judaism for Lutheranism. In a climactic all-night conversation in July 1913, Rosenzweig agreed to follow Rosenstock's lead, but vowed to enter the church "as a Jew," like the earliest Christians. While preparing for the leap, Rosenzweig went to services in a small Orthodox synagogue in Berlin on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. He never publicly revealed what happened to him at the service, but he emerged from it a changed man, no longer willing-or even able -to become a Christian. Later, in The Star of Redemption, he would write about that holiest of Jewish holy...
...BERLIN. In West Berlin the ambassadors of the Big Four (Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the U.S.) made new progress toward an agreement on the status of West Berlin, which is isolated 110 miles inside Communist East Germany. Sixteen months after the talks began, the Russians have recently been cooperative enough that some Western diplomats are talking boldly of a "three-three-three" timetable: three more months for the ambassadors to draw up the basic framework of the settlement, emphasizing free access between West Berlin and West Germany; three months for the West and East Germans to work...
...first hundred pages. Author Knef has a Hitlerian horror story to tell. At 19, politically no more sophisticated than any other shoemaker's daughter, the little cow jumped over the moon for an all-out Nazi film director named Ewald von Demandowsky. When the Russians reached Berlin, Hilde wangled a machine gun and some grenades and followed him to the front disguised as a soldier. Her account of what happened is a phantasmagoric exercise in battle reportage...
...world broke up around them, the lovers in a final grand romantic gesture persuaded an officer to marry them. After they were captured by the Russians, Hilde escaped at the insistence of her "husband" (he survived, but she never saw him again) and arrived in Berlin just in time to assist at the rebirth of the German theater. The costumes were so makeshift they fell off on the stage, the actors so ill the director had to call an intermission for vomiting. Hilde then starred in The Murderers Are Among Us, Germany's first postwar film, and the same...