Word: bern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foreigners might consider this a modest enough venture into outside affairs, but it was bitterly debated before the federal Parliament at Bern finally approved the idea. "Why should we gallop into this Europeanization?'' shouted an angry legislator. "It should be done step by step." Citing the cost ($70,000) of joining the Council, Independent Representative Alois Grendelmeier of Zurich huffed, "Diplomatic missions are more than adequate for communicating with other states . . . our neutrality is getting dimmer and dimmer...
...Olde. Water- in canals, lagoons, fountains - is "an excellent prop"; and arcades such as those flank ing Pisa's Borgo Stretto and Bern's Spitalgasse or covering Istanbul's Grand Bazaar provide not only protection from both sun and rain but an interesting play of light and shadow...
Karl began his theological studies at the University of Bern, but soon found the orthodox Calvinism taught there too old-fashioned for his own taste. He persuaded his father to send him to the University of Berlin, where he could study under the best known of Protestant church historians, Adolf von Harnack. For an embryonic scholar of 20, it was a heady, exhilarating experience. "I was so enthusiastic about him," Barth remembers, "that I missed going to concerts and museums. In the midst of Berlin, I saw little of the city, doing only my work...
Parish Parson. Barth spent a year grappling with Von Harnack's historicism. absorbed more liberal theology at the universities of Tubingen and Marburg before being ordained in 1908 by his father at the Reformed cathedral of Bern. He served his ecclesiastical apprenticeship as an assistant pastor in a French-speaking parish near Geneva. Then, in 1911, he was called to the Reformed Church of Safenwil, a small mill town in northern Switzerland, where he married a sprightly young violinist named Nelly Hoffman...
...Moscow Declaration" of December 1960, particularly the doctrine of "peaceful coexistence. ¶I The Chinese have tried to "discredit the leadership of the Soviet Communist Party and have sought to extend their influence to other Communist parties," particularly in France and Albania. They have made the Chinese embassy in Bern the control center for European subversion against Moscow...