Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, the ever jittery citizens of West Berlin showed their appreciation of the U.S. by giving Carter a warm reception. He stirred none of the passions aroused by John Kennedy in 1963, but hundreds of thousands of Berliners lined the streets between the Platz der Luftbriicke and the Brandenburg Gate to watch him pass. At the grim wall that divides the city, Carter, Rosalynn and Amy mounted a platform along the border and looked through field glasses at the forbidding, obstacle-studded no man's zone and at East German guards staring back. During the night, the East Germans...
Carter drew on this incident to make one of his most effective answers to questions from an audience of some 1,000 people as he held one of his familiar "town meetings" at West Berlin's "Kongress-halle." He noted that "15 years ago when John Kennedy came here, they [the East Germans] covered the wall with a drape. Now at 2:30 a.m. the East Germans whitewashed it and tried to cover the ugly spectacle again. But I don't think anything can hide the deprivation of human rights represented by that wall." The audience, wearing earphones...
...form of collage, and the beautiful semblance seems to have been an experience of wholeness that was missing from Benjamin's life. His background was not suited for survival in the '20s and '30s. As a youth he had the advantages that his father, a successful Berlin art dealer, could provide. Yet like so many young upper-middle-class intellectuals, Benjamin rejected the very bourgeois values that had enabled him to loll around reading Marx, collecting rare first editions and traveling. He thought of himself as a private man of letters, a scholar-prince supported by stipends...
...tried in Moscow, Marseille, Paris, Naples as well as Berlin, cities whose textures and pungencies he focused with astonishing force in his writings. Thirsty for experience, Benjamin became a passionate stroller-observer who conveyed the impression that the streets bent to meet his oncoming perceptions. His pieces about Europe's great cosmopolitan centers contain the best writing in this translation of Reflections. The book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙Families, Jane Howard Hitler's Spies, David Kahn ∙Look Who's Talking!, Emily Hahn Russian Thinkers. Isaiah Berlin The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn