Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beers after class. Frank's paratroop outfit had been awakened one night in 1958, herded onto planes, and flown over Berlin. "They were going to throw us to the Russian invasion as a token resistance...
From Deutsche Grammophon conies Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. I in B-flat minor, recorded last November with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic, which is both surprising and gratifying for its underplaying of the work's slam-bang heroics...
...applause swell for past dramas: Ike before worshipful masses in Seoul; Kennedy firm-jawed at the Berlin Wall; L.B.J. staring down Aleksei Kosygin at Glassboro; Nixon clinking glasses in the Great Hall with Chou Enlai, then eating Wheaties in the Kremlin; Ford grinning beneath his fur hat in the snows of Vladivostok with Leonid Brezhnev. Worthy acts. But the world changes...
...been on one train from Warsaw to West Germany, our theatre luggage on another which hadn't arrived. No way to get information from railway authorities in East Berlin. A day passed. Consulted I Ching. Oracle said: Don't worry; relax and feast. While we were stuffing ourselves, news came that our trunks had just arrived...
...differences in East Berlin arose when the Russians and East European hard-liners presented a draft document stressing traditional ideology. The renegades instead wanted to emphasize the open spirit of Helsinki and insisted the conference follow three basic principles: 1) the conference should not adopt any policies without a general consensus of all parties, 2) nonconformists like the Italians should not become a target of criticism by others, and 3) individual parties should have the right to speak out even on unpopular topics like the Italian party's insistence on seeking power through democratic elections...