Word: derring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That apocalyptic allegory is the plot of Der Dra-Dra, the latest work of one of Communism's most controversial artists. Wolf Biermann, 34, a sad-faced East Berlin balladeer, is the spiritual heir of Bertolt Brecht, who spent his last years in the city. But while Brecht directed most of his barbs at the abuses of capitalism ("Don't rob a bank. Own one"), Biermann aims his satire at the political dictatorships of both left and right. Biermann's approach has hardly endeared him to Communist Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and East Germany...
...nation of Israel. On first reading, it seems just too simple to be really good, but the subtlety of the poem only emerges after several exposures. The translation is almost totally literal, and thus loses some of the devices which make the original succeed. An effective alliteration ("die Wande der Wiiste wissen von Liebe") is lost in translation as "the walls of the desert know of love." The strict rendering into unwieldy English detracts immeasurably from the starkness of the German. Words which can be used in German poetry, like Gestirne, or Jahrtausend, are rendered in unwieldy English words- constellation...
...public relations, and married Charles Stuart. Charles has been part of the Nixon team since 1968; he moved into the White House with the President. He started as assistant to John Ehrlichman, is now an aide to Bob Haldeman. When Pat Nixon fired her first press secretary, Gerry Van der Heuvel (who, among other things, had wanted to work for Hubert Humphrey), there was Connie, with recommendations from two of Nixon's closest...
Tries Hard. On the other hand, the distaff White House press corps gives Connie credit for holding twice-weekly press briefings, something that Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird's press secretary, did only on big stories and Mrs. Van der Heuvel never did. She works twelve-hour days at her $30,000-a-year job, without the tranquilizers used by Mesdames Carpenter and Van der Heuvel. And unlike her West Wing counterpart, Ron Ziegler, Connie attempts to answer all questions, though she does not hesitate, with a theatrical roll of her eyes, to show her disapproval of certain queries. Because...
...birth in 1879 and his death from a wasting disease in a Swiss sanatorium 60 years later, he produced over 9,000 works. Perhaps one could no more put on a "definitive" Klee show than fix the shape of a swarm of bees. But the one at the Haus der Kunst in Munich has made a valiant attempt, mustering 537 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints to memorialize the 30th anniversary of his death...