Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chamber Players have received substantial support and fanfare from the University. He maintains, "You give me not the same players, but one class lower [than the Chamber Players] and I'll make concerts musically better than that, I assure you." And while he expresses no desire to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic or an orchestra like it, he also seems confident that he could handle it if he wanted...
...President. While Brezhnev listened to a translation through a headset and jotted notes, Ford emphasized the importance of the Basket Three principles of liberty of thought, movement, and the flow of information. He also gave measured stress to the phrase "and the possibility of change by peaceful means," citing Berlin as "a flashpoint of confrontation in the past [that] can provide an example of peaceful settlement in the future." Referring to criticism at home of his presence at the summit and skepticism about the document's validity, he warned that the Helsinki declaration could not be a hollow promise...
...Giscard, Turkey's Demirel and Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis. The champion in the bilateral race was Chancellor Schmidt, who managed 14 meetings with 13 other leaders, many of them from Eastern Europe. His goals: to get the East Europeans to ease up on their reluctance to include West Berlin in agreements dealing with West Germany and to advance Bonn's already booming trade relations with the East...
...cold war tensions that beset Europe for a generation have continued to abate. For all the doubts about the meeting's real significance, it nonetheless offers an impressive historical perspective: it takes place 30 years after American and Soviet troops met at the Elbe, 27 years after the Berlin airlift, 26 years after the birth of NATO, 22 years after the death of Stalin, and 19 years after Nikita Khrushchev told the West, "We will bury you!" The Helsinki charter formalizes the boundaries and power balances created by recent history, thereby marking a theoretical end to World...
Reading provided a major outlet for Speer's mental energy. "Spandau was truly my education," he muses. Allowed to borrow from Berlin's libraries, Speer sometimes devoured as many as 50 books a month. He also became an enthusiastic gardener. "It became my salvation," he confessed last week. Terracing, weeding and pruning, he worked at the plot in the prison yard four or five hours daily. "I became something of a landscape architect, you might say," he says-a joking reference to the architectural skills that originally brought him to the attention of Hitler...