Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walt W. Rostow wrote Kennedy a letter in December 1960 recommending Derek C. Bok, who was then on the Law School Faculty, as a key adviser on Berlin...
...beginning of Italy's risorgimento, and so greatly mistaken in the end." His Irish American host in New York said flatly that Sir Roger had become "mentally unbalanced." Cracked or not, Casement was confident that a victorious Germany would benignly liberate Ireland. He made his way to Berlin, where he soon found that the German government consisted of "swine and cads." His attempt to recruit Irish soldiers captured by the Germans and dragoon them into fighting the British proved a wretched fiasco-and even his hosts showed their distaste for the notion of tampering with soldiers' loyalties...
...gives such a sense of the master about Nabokov is perhaps the feeling of common characters, common turns of phrase, common interests running through his long shelf of books. His novels span the gap between contemporary Switzerland and Russia before the Revolution. In between lie post-war America and Berlin between the wars, tea on the edge of Bloomsbury and dinner with Joyce in Paris. There are fantastic countries, like "Ultima Thule" published last spring in a A Russian Beauty and Other Stories...
...tape of the opera for 20 minutes or so to see what's left in my head." What's left is usually plenty, although last September she had to skip a night's sleep to do the taxing lead role in Strauss's Elektra in Berlin on 17 hours' notice. Those days would seem to be over for Klara Barlow...
...expenses added to their tickets. In Munich, the Bavarian Interior Ministry demands written guarantees that arriving passengers at Riem Airport have been searched before takeoff. When airlines refuse such guarantees, their planes are ordered to an isolated runway, and passengers and luggage are thoroughly examined. Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin uses a code to indicate to air crews if any embarking passengers are Arab. At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, overhead walkways have been closed off, and armed soldiers patrol them. Most airports have marks men on hand with orders to shoot to kill if anything commences that looks like...