Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However reviled in the West, the Berlin Wall has achieved its grim purposes. The flow of refugees through West Berlin has been reduced from a pre-Wall high of as many as 20,000 people in one day to a mere trickle of 900 in 1975. By sealing off the exodus of professional and skilled labor, the Wall has helped turn East Germany into the world's most prosperous Communist nation...
...conduct he chose Pierre Boulez, known for his readings of modern works but not particularly for his Wagner. He then approached Berlin's Peter Stein to be director, and the word around Bayreuth is that the irreverent Stein proposed a Ring cycle without music. Wagner's next pick, suggested by Boulez, was Chéreau, the current enfant terrible of the Paris stage, whose only previous ventures into opera were an iconoclastic Tales of Hoffmann in Paris and Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri at Spoleto. ("You should watch this young man," said Luchino Visconti, director...
...flag to Queen Elizabeth II last week; she was not offended.) The Finns, then under the domination of Imperial Russia, sought the same year to emphasize their strivings for national identity by refusing to march under the Russian flag. Hitler tried to use the 1936 Berlin Games as a display of the supremacy of the Aryan race...
...West Germans almost certainly face problems since their team includes members from West Berlin. The Soviets contend that West Berlin is an independent political entity and must have no ties with West Germany. And what about Israel? The Arabs claim that Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian soil. Would the Soviets invite a team from the P.L.O. and bar the Israelis? Even if only a small part of this scenario developed, what might be the U.S. response...
...with violating a "fundamental" Olympic premise: "No discrimination is allowed against any country or person on the grounds of race, religion or political affiliation." Lord Killanin pointed out that even in 1936, when the Hitler regime threatened to make trouble over the appearance of Jewish and black athletes in Berlin, the Nazis decided not to tamper with the Games. Canada's objections had come far too late for the I.O.C. to consider a change of venue for the Games. Declared Killanin: "It would appear that we've done everything possible to uphold our principles." The I.O.C...