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...space to rival New York City's best and the hope that greater visibility would soon follow. But bricks and mortar can do only so much. The Kennedy Center, which houses an opera house, a concert hall and theaters, did score some coups, including a dazzling visit by the Berlin Opera in 1975 and a now legendary Fidelio conducted by Leonard Bernstein in 1979. Still, the also-ran image persisted; not even the appointment of the respected cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to head the National Symphony Orchestra in 1977 gave the town's homegrown musical institutions a wider visibility...
Greenblatt was in Berlin yesterday and could not be reached for comment...
DIED. ARTUR AXMANN, 83, head of Hitler's notorious Nazi youth organization; in Berlin. Axmann claimed to have witnessed Hitler's 1945 suicide...
DIED. ELEANOR DULLES, 101, head of the State Department's crucial Berlin desk during the cold war 1950s; in Washington. The sister of then Secretary of State John Dulles and then CIA Director Allen Dulles, she helped West Berlin recover from World...
...easily identified by our middle and upper class origins. We owned Star Wars action figures, watched He-Man and Rainbow Bright, played Atari and loved Molly Ringwald. Our national tragedies were the Challenger disaster and the stock market crash of 1987. We attended high school as the Berlin Wall crumbled and joined in celebrating the victory that our elders...