Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winning the international recognition they have sought for 23 years, the East Germans were acting with peculiar furtiveness about their diplomatic coup. Last week West Germany's foreign policy troubleshooter Egon Bahr, newly named Minister for Special Tasks, arrived in East Berlin to sign the basic treaty providing for formal diplomatic relations between the two states. He was whisked by fast car from Schönefeld Airport to the Council of Ministers building for a hasty signing ceremony with East German State Secretary Michael Kohl. The event was carried live on West German television but not on Eastern broadcasts...
Willy Brandt has had to break a campaign promise. Before his triumph at the polls last month, the West German Chancellor declared that he would personally travel to East Berlin before Christmas to sign the historic treaty that will establish normal relations between the two German states and in effect end the cold war in Germany (TIME, Nov. 20). Now Bonn has let it be known that when the treaty is signed on Dec. 21, the pens will be held not by Brandt and East German Premier Willi Stoph but by their state secretaries, Egon Bahr and Michael Kohl...
...have deputies witness so important a document? The two sides could not agree on a signing date that was acceptable to both Brandt and Stoph. It also seemed that the Communist leaders were not eager to welcome Brandt in East Berlin; they probably feared a repetition of the embarrassingly enthusiastic chants of "Willy, Willy!" that greeted the architect of Ostpolitik on his trip to the East German town of Erfurt in 1970. In the wake of Brandt's reelection, his popularity in the East is at a peak-which is why the Stoph regime is not likely...
...supervision of Korngold's producer son George. The record is also the only stereo document currently available of a composer who was one of Europe's most brilliant prodigies half a century ago. When Korngold was 13, Artur Schnabel was playing his piano sonata in Vienna and Berlin. Four years later Conductors Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer were doing his orchestral works. In 1921, when Korngold was 24, his opera The Dead City was mounted at the Metropolitan Opera, and legendary Soprano Maria Jeritza made her debut in it. Korngold promised much, but he kept that promise...
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (Tenor Jon Vickers, Soprano Helga Dernesch, Soprano Christa Ludwig, Baritone Walter Berry, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Angel, 5 LPs, $29.90). What a cast of performers! What a disappointment! Given Karajan's past flair for Wagner, not to mention stalwart Tenor Vickers as Tristan, this could well have been, the stereo statement of Wagner's endless paean to adultery. Instead, it is merely a smooth, workmanlike job, hampered by Dernesch's inability to make Isolde alive enough so that her death is significant. The record is also marred by the cavernous, "first...