Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irresistable because there's just so much glam. With the Barrymore's, Joan Crawford and Wallace Beery. Along with it at Quincy House is Astaire and Rogers' Top Hat, whence cometh "Cheek to Cheek" and others. Many people's favorite--not mine, but wonderful by definition. Music is Irving Berlin...
Most members of the economists' group concluded that there was cause to be deeply concerned-but not to be unalterably pessimistic. Recession can be avoided if the Arabs loosen the oil spigot and Europeans recover their confidence. Professor Rolf Krengel of West Berlin's Institute for Economic Research emphasizes: "The psychology is extremely important. If people believe there will be a recession and start cutting their expenditures so as to increase their savings, they will help to bring about the very thing they fear." A fear voiced by some American economists that a prolonged Arab oil squeeze would...
...army and fought successfully in the civil war, rising to command a cavalry regiment. Following his arrest for "liberalism," along with many other army leaders, he refused to sign a false confession even after being tortured. Reinstated in 1941, he eventually commanded the Third Army in its march on Berlin...
Dvorak: Nine Symphonies (Berlin Philharmonic, Rafael Kubelik conducting; Deutsche Grammophon; 9 LPs; $49.50). Those who like their Dvorak in plural doses, but with budgets to balance, may safely investigate the late George Szell's album of the last three and best symphonies (Columbia; 3 LPs; $ 11.98). Most other fans of the Czech nationalist will want to save their pennies for this set. Kubelik's surging way with the music catches its color and drama and seems to belie the uneven moments in some of the early symphonies. The Berlin Philharmonic, reduced so often to a static silkiness...
That such a blow should be dealt by the former mayor of that city, who rose to prominence because of his courageous insistence that West Berlin survive and prosper in the face of the erection of the Berlin Wall, is particularly ironic. It is yet another sign that cold-war positions are no longer viable in contemporary Europe...