Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet Deterrent. So long as the humorless, Moscow-lining Honecker regime stays in power, no one expects a repetition of the Polish riots or the dramatic 1953 workers' uprising in East Berlin. The presence of Soviet troops is one deterrent to revolt; another is the muscular visibility of East Germany's 90,000 soldiers and 46,000 border guards. The people, indeed, appear more resigned to their government now than at any previous time. As living standards rise, more and more East Germans will be able to claim, fairly enough, that their lives are not all that...
...elevated railway station atop East Berlin's Friedrichstrasse, there is even a small duty-free liquor shop where tourists can buy brand-name Scotches ($4.50) and cognacs ($5.90), about half the West Berlin price...
Died. Mary Wigman, 86, German pioneer of modern dance; in West Berlin. Wigman vowed to end her career as a dancer at its height, and in 1942 she did. But she continued to instruct dancers at the school she founded in Berlin after her escape from East Germany...
Roth's feat of scholarship and imagination is an excellent place to begin Letters to Felice, now published for the first time in English, Kafka's confessional correspondence to the nice Jewish secretary from Berlin who from 1912 to 1917 was twice his fiancée but never his bride. Erich Heller's introduction, though heavily written and somewhat abstract, does pinpoint Kafka's "moral hypochondria ... a man ready to feel guiltily responsible for what he knows to be a flaw in the order of the world...
Kafka met Felice in 1912 at Max Brod's Prague apartment. He was 30 and still entertained hope of marriage to a bright, cheerful, uncomplicated girl. A month after her return to Berlin, his first letter began a seduction aimed not at getting Felice to bed but at idealizing her on a pedestal where she could intensify his feelings of inadequacy...