Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They have taken down the 9-ft-high chain-link fence between Panama City's Legislative Palace and the adjacent Canal Zone-a fence that Panamanian newspapers like to compare to the Berlin Wall. In the palace itself they have built a false floor and then erected an exact replica of the U.N. Security Council conference table in New York. The only difference is that the legs are wooden instead of steel. "We don't have any steel industry here," explained the Panamanian official in charge of the affair...
...does not mean, of course, that Americans closely follow European affairs. Quite the contrary. Since the passing of De Gaulle, Adenauer and Churchill, there have been no giant European personalities who really attract their attention, although Brandt appears to be much admired, still largely for his reputation as West Berlin's courageous mayor. There is a tendency for Americans to be crisis oriented, and the crisis in recent years has been Viet Nam, not Europe. Americans also like the exotic and, with Viet Nam over, Asia beckons once again in more appealing ways than before...
...specific example of aesthetic conservatism, Kaiser said, the most interesting theatrical events in Central Europe last year were two productions in West Berlin of Prinz Friedrich von Hamburg by Heinrich von Kleist (17771811), a five-act romantic drama of heroism in battle and requited love. "Here we have a play that less than five years ago was rejected by the radical left. Suddenly that same play starts to fascinate young and old alike-so much so that it results in the most interesting theatrical evenings of the season...
Kaiser concludes that "as a cultural whole, Europe does not exist." In fact, he feels that there is considerably more intellectual continuity between New York today and the Berlin of old, for instance, than between Munich and Florence. "I was in Florence yesterday," he said, "and I really had the feeling of being on another continent." If ever there is to be a common culture for Europe, he believes that it will be the result of cross-fertilization from the Anglo-American orbit-not so much in art or literature as in lifestyles. "These influences range from the habit...
...Behind The Berlin Wall, I attempted to find out what everyday life was like for the average person in a totalitarian society. Above all, I sought to see how people themselves reacted to their condition. Thus the bulk of the book consists of conversations with East Germans, young and old, workers and students. In his contemptuous descriptions of my criticisms of the lack of consumer products in East Germany, Swanson doesn't even mention that this lack was an obsessive concern of East German people, which came up again and again in conversations as representative of the contempt the East...