Word: brandenburg
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More troubling, trust is scarce. "Everyone has the fear that things will , get worse because a lot of undemocratic decisions are being made," complained a 72-year-old pensioner in Brandenburg, about 37 miles west of Berlin, last week. Many eastern Germans feel they have no control over their future. "The Round Table," said the pensioner, referring to the group of citizen- representatives that briefly shared power with the last Communist government in East Berlin, "was democracy for me." Many easterners are upset too at having to lower their expectations of the changes they thought unification would bring. Said Verena...
...days before the voting, easterners were griping as well about a kind of democracy fatigue. Sunday was the fourth time they were going to the polls since March, when East Germany elected its first post-Communist parliament. In Brandenburg some said they were tired of campaigns and elections; others that they felt their votes, amid millions of ballots, counted for nothing. In an open-air market run by unemployed workers, one woman, retaining the old reluctance to give her name, dismissed any worry about absenteeism. Casting an eye backward in time, she said, "Of course they'll vote...
...Wynton showed up at New York City's Wellington Hotel in the summer of 1978 to audition for the Tanglewood Music Center, of which Schuller was artistic director. After impressing the judges with his virtuosity on the Haydn trumpet concerto, Wynton offered to play Bach's extremely difficult Second Brandenburg Concerto. "While he was warming up," says Schuller, "he concealed himself behind a pillar, so I leaned over to see what he was doing. He was pumping the valves and talking to his trumpet, saying, 'Now don't let me down.' He knocked off the first three phrases flawlessly...
...dissolution of communist East Germany and its voluntary merger with the Federal Republic was a political event with no modern precedent. It was also a mighty spectacle as millions of Germans celebrated with beer and wine in places with evocative names like Unter den Linden and the Brandenburg Gate...
When he saw the night of revelry round the Brandenburg Gate and the flag- waving crowds in Dresden, he decided that the time was ripe for him to make History. Blinded by the vision of enthusiastic voters carrying him on their shoulders, he decided to forge ahead -- never mind the bickering of the Poles, the reluctance of the Soviets and the suspicions of the rest of the world. Kohl was not to be ruffled by the specter of a Fourth Reich evoked by foreign or domestic critics who accused him of jingoism, and for a few weeks he enjoyed...