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Seeking a Collapse. Obviously, no TV viewer expected The German Confederation to foreshadow actual events in Germany during the next nine years. But Rudiger Altmann's fantasy-and the excitement it caused-were symptomatic of the buoyant mood on both sides of the Wall, and a new attitude toward reunification. Thanks to the relaxation of cold-war tensions, Germans today are nursing a growing though still amorphous hope that a start toward a peaceful solution to the problem of a divided Germany may now be found. Few have the illusion that the frozen ice of Central Europe...
...only "revealed to me my true personality," but steered him to an ear doctor who restored his hearing with an operation. Suddenly, he recalls, "the violent, silent world inside me erupted. I came out of my shell." And how. Exclaims Bazelon: "I became outgoing, warm, animated, tremendously buoyant -a rock 'em, sock 'em personality. And my music became just as dramatic as I am." exit Irwin; enter...
...GENEROUS MAN, by Reynolds Price. A North Carolina country boy comes to terms with the joys and responsibilities of manhood in this buoyant, funny novel...
...GENEROUS MAN, by Reynolds Price. A North Carolina country boy comes to terms with the joys and responsibilities of manhood in this buoyant, funny novel...
...election in such a stubbornly independent district could hardly be hailed as a trend setter for November. Republicans nonetheless could take cheer in the retention of Mayor John Vliet Lindsay's old seat at the nerve center of the nation's largest city. Lindsay's buoyant political stock was boosted still higher by the victory of a candidate who billed himself as "a man like Lindsay" and promised to continue in the cherished Lindsay tradition of "independence and constructive opposition...