Word: egon
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Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wild was sight-reading by age six, his fluid technique already a source of wonder. As a teenage student of the formidable Egon Petri (a tough, intellectual pianist renowned for his sturdy Liszt and penetrating Beethoven performances), Wild was already a concert-hall veteran, a kind of young American version of Vladimir Horowitz. In 1942, the legendary Arturo Toscanini invited him to play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the NBC Symphony. Wild remains the only American soloist ever to play under the fiery Italian maestro...
...Egon Krenz, who succeeded Honecker as communist leader for 50 tumultuous days in 1989, contends that "not all 2.3 million party members were villains." If Germany opts to deal with them only through Ausgrenzung, he says, "we will never have a peaceful unification." Krenz is a victim of that policy, although some might argue that he had it coming. Both he and Keller fear that the shunning -- combined with hardships caused by the collapse of the socialist economy -- could encourage a popular tide of nostalgia for the good old, bad old days. Politically, of course, there is no going back...
...Egon Krenz is alive and well -- and seriously unemployed. "Living without work is my biggest problem, and I don't think I'll get a job soon," says Krenz, 53, whose hold on power as Erich Honecker's successor lasted a mere seven weeks. Since his fall, Krenz has kept busy jogging near his home in Berlin, doing the family shopping and writing When Walls Fall, a personal memoir and an account of the last days of the old regime. While he was in a West German bookstore recently, an East German walked up and slapped him in the face...
...what might constitute neutrality in a Europe from which hostile blocs have vanished. For the first time in modern history every country in Western Europe is led by a democratic government and every state in Central Europe is on the road to it. As Social Democratic Party (SPD) planner Egon Bahr has asked, Who is there to be neutral against...
With his ruling coalition threatening to implode, Prime Minister Hans Modrow invited twelve opposition groups to join the government. They agreed on condition that Modrow suspend his Communist Party membership and the new Cabinet include no other Communists. Egon Krenz, Modrow's predecessor for only six weeks, was summarily expelled from the Communist Party he once...