Word: dahlem
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Government sedan, which promptly sped off to the U.S. mission in the verdant Dahlem quarter of the divided city. There, the three escorts - an East German attorney, a U.S. State Department official and an Israeli parliamentary aide- delivered their charge, winding up one of the most intricate East-West spy swaps in years: the exchange of a convicted Soviet agent who had been held in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania for an American student who had been imprisoned by the East Germans. As part of the same deal, a young Israeli had already been freed by the Marxist regime...
Such a romanticism, which has not only survived civilization but managed to invade it, crops up in expected places, and unexpected patterns. In the glittering basement shops of Europa Center, for instance, or in the new anthropological museums of Dahlem--both create a fairytale world of objects magically charged with pleasure or the primitive, protected and displayed like relics...
...wood, leather, fur--objects which could possess all the properties of a ring of invisibility or seven-league boots. They are displayed almost theatrically, lit from top and bottom, hanging on clear strings, supported by glass shelves or plastic stands, and like the stone totems or magic tokens at Dahlem, picked out of a surrounding darkness by spotlight. There, carefully designed panels and charts locate the object on grids of time and space, and, like the advertising in Europa Center, give the argument of the drama enacted in the crystalline stage beneath: the object dissolves into the play...
Rape, plunder and suicide became commonplace. Soldiers entered the Haus Dahlem, an orphanage, maternity hospital and foundling home, and repeatedly raped pregnant women and those who had recently given birth. All told, the number of rape victims in Berlin-ranging from women of 70 to little girls of ten-will never be known, although Ryan reports estimates from doctors that run from...
Shaky as it seemed, the Free University thrived.* Regularly supported until 1954 by the U.S. Government, which has given $7.8 million so far, the university got more hefty aid from the Ford Foundation. Today, it has 82 buildings (17 new) in suburban Dahlem, 180 fulltime professors, top schools of law and Eastern European studies, an annual budget of $7,500,000. As their part, West Berlin taxpayers cough up 2½ times more per student than West Germans contribute to their own universities. Free University students (one-third girls) pay about $50 tuition per semester, and 30% of them have...