Word: dahlem
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...author's delight in being oracular does not detract much from a clever investigation into mysticism and the mystique of power. The ironic Artist Tutmose-whose hauntingly beautiful head of Nefertiti is on view in West Berlin's Dahlem Museum-solves only part of the puzzle when, near the book's end, he concludes that "beyond our own motives, existence has no reason." Perhaps, Stacton seems to be saying, the puzzle of existence constitutes its own reason...
...most quietly regal of all sculptured ladies reigned once again this week over West Berlin's Dahlem Museum. Nefertete ("The Beautiful One Has Come") is the museum's most popular treasure, along with Rembrandt s Man with a Golden Helmet, and she has been away a long time. Cached for safekeeping in a salt mine during World War II, she was found by U.S. troops and warehoused in Wiesbaden. Not until this summer was Nefertete wrapped in tissue paper, put in a nest of boxes filled with ground cork and gingerly brought back to her air-conditioned glass...
...early 19505, when Communism's solid front swayed and bent under the impact of the treason trials of Hungary's Laszlo Rajk, Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky and the American Noel Field. Charging his rival with "political blindness" in having once befriended Field. Ulbricht seized Dahlem in May 1953. At first Dahlem was jailed, then sent to an East German hospital for observation. Dahlem's fortune ebbed further in 1954 when his son Robert fled to the West. Dahlem was ordered to the Soviet Union for a "rest." Since that time, the face of Russian Communism, which...
...look in East German Communism. The Ulbricht speech included the now mandatory apology to Tito, a helping of discreet selfcriticism, and the rehabilitation of a few old victims. The first of these (who may not have been Ulbricht's own choice) was his old rival, Franz Dahlem. "The conditions under which the investigation of Comrade Dahlem was conducted," said Ulbricht, "have ceased to exist...
...that Ulbricht counts on the fact that Dahlem, who suffers from a heart ailment, appears to have aged considerably. But it remains a fact that Dahlem would be a natural choice for party leadership should the Russians try to reorganize East German Communism without unpopular Walter Ulbricht...