Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerome Kern (1885-1945) was, with Irving Berlin, one of the two composers chiefly responsible for establishing the modern musical as an important theatrical genre. Kern was also the major stimulus for the young George Gershwin, and has remained an idol for the still-active Richard Rodgers, who celebrates his 75th birthday tomorrow...
...what was called the "postwar period." Everyone was back to work: to being serious or else relentlessly unserious. The newspaper headlines sometimes spoke ominously of distant matters--the H-Bomb, Berlin, Soviet takeovers in Eastern Europe--and the point was not that these matters were ignored, for on the whole they weren't, but that so many of us were plugged into a collective act of will that asserted that everything before the war had been old and that everything after the war would...
...orgasm of the war, itself terminating in the A-bombs over Japan--an apparent note of finality, of something finished! But it was only coitus interruptus and I don't think many of us knew it. There was Korea, while we were still in college. The H-Bomb. Always Berlin: facing down the Russkies--who, with Stalin as Dreamer-in-Chief, were surely well-caught in their own ghastly dream. Our dream led right into the '60s, helped create the '60s, created or helped create the shell through which the blacks and chicanos and antiwar protesters had to break...
...There is, after all, the great man's general dislike of biographies, summed up in one word: "Psychoplagiarisms." There is also the autobiography Speak, Memory in which Nabokov has written iridescently of his privileged youth in old Russia and of his stateless years as a penurious emigre in Berlin and Paris...
...mother's family tree there are Baltic barons and Teutonic knights. There are added highlights to previous glowing portraits of Nabokov's father V.D. Nabokov, an authority on criminal law and a courageous liberal in Russia's first, shortlived Parliament. He was killed in 1922 in Berlin, while preventing an assassination at a political meeting. After all the articles and interviews published about Nabokov, it is no longer news that as a refugee in Weimar Berlin, he began his brilliant literary career while earning his living by teaching English and tennis. But he also supplemented his income...