Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief executive reported to the nation by radio and television on the Berlin crisis. He took the expected stand that the United States is not abandoning any rights or deserting a free people but still is ready to negotiate differences...
...unmistakable terms, Eisenhower lot the American people, the Soviet Union and the world know that the United States has no intention to "try to purchase peace by forsaking two million free people of Berlin...
...Berlin in the '20s was perhaps the gayest capital in the world, and Paul Tillich was no stranger to night life. During one of the art students' fancy-dress balls, at which he turned up in a cutaway and turban, he met a handsome girl in long green silk stockings, named Hannah Werner. As Tillich put it recently: "Things went on from there...
Impressed by some of Tillich's writings on Religious Socialism, socialistic-minded Reinhold Niebuhr of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary had offered him a post at Union, but Tillich hesitated. He called on the Minister of Education in Berlin. "For a full hour," remembers Tillich, "we discussed the Old Testament and the importance to Christianity of the Jewish tradition. At the end of that hour I knew it was over...
Based on a series of dramatic fragments by German Playwright Georg Büchner (1813-37), Wozzeck created a sensation when first performed in Berlin in 1925, was almost immediately recognized by European critics as one of the century's operatic masterpieces. But the fear that American audiences were not ready for Wozzeck's cerebral, atonal music long discouraged the Met from attempting...