Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reached in Berlin earlier this week, Bok said the participants had "firm discussions" and found they shared many problems in running their Universities between American and German higher education saying "May be we can be of some help in providing perspective and ideas for German Universities...
...troops, tanks, and tactical nuclear weapons in a European conflict. For the other two-hours and 55 minutess (including commercials), 70 million Americans viewed Kansas both before and after a general thermonuclear attack. You may recall the scenario: political upheaval in East Germany; Warsaw Pact siege of West Berlin; attack of NATO tank forces to relieve the beleaguered city; counterattack; NATO use of small nuclear weapons against an overwhelming Pact advance; holocaust...
INSTEAD, it is the MBFR talks that become quite interesting in the framework of The Day After. The first two premises of the movie were an East German revolution and a siege of West Berlin. Such events cannot be ruled but; witness Poland's recent unrest and the troubles over Berlin since 1945. Oppressed people-have-a habit of rising against their oppressors, as the heirs of the October Revolution are certainly acutely aware. To this end, the Pact and the Red Army, not SS-20s or SS-18s, guarantee Soviet security through political repression. And this is what MBFR...
Peter Gay, Berlin-born professor of history at Yale and author of such highly regarded works as The Enlightenment and Weimar Culture, tells the rather steamy tale of Mabel Todd in considerable detail because she illustrates to perfection the basic thesis of his ambitious new book: that the middle classes of the Victorian century, widely thought to have suppressed sexuality in favor of piety and profit, were just as amorous as their great-grandchildren of today. Even Queen Victoria was not really Victorian, says Gay, for she "drew, and bought, male nudes and gave her adored husband Albert just such...
...long march of celluloid confined to Hollywood. In last week's balloting by the National Society of Film Critics, two of the top three vote getters were Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (3 hr. 10 min.) and R.W. Fassbinder's mammoth Berlin Alexanderplatz (15 hr. 21 min.). In the time it would take to watch just those two films, you could have seen all ten pictures nominated for the 1937 Oscar and still have had time left over to catch a Pete Smith Specialty and a couple of Mickey Mouse cartoons...