Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...variety of conflicting signals reaching the Soviets has prompted New Times, a Moscow weekly, to complain about the "contradictory and unpredictable nature of the Washington Administration's behavior," which is as "changeable as the weather." Some U.S. allies make similar complaints. Groused West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt: "There is no consistency [to Carter's policies]. It's constant zigzagging...
...proposals initially drew prickly opposition. At Dutch instigation, four small countries called a separate caucus to sulk over what they regarded as West German and French highhandedness. British Prime Minister James Callaghan, who is reluctant to inhibit the pound in any case, argued that the scheme could be construed by Washington as a move against the dollar. Schmidt proved to be one step ahead of his critics. In a series of telephone calls to Carter, he apparently succeeded in getting Washington's blessing for the monetary idea. Said a ranking German finance ministry official...
White House approval of Schmidt's boa is not necessarily a harbinger of sweetness and light at Bonn. The personal relationship between Schmidt and Carter has been poor and has only recently begun to improve, and the West German offer to increase growth if the U.S. moves to solve its deficit problems will probably not be enough to satisfy Washington. The President, though, will have an unexpected new argument to present to the Chancellor. The biggest source of the U.S. trade deficit is not oil but industrial imports from West Germany and Japan (see chart). Department of Commerce figures...
...Washington, Miller is widely regarded as one of the best appointments that Carter has made. Private bankers commonly echo Milton W. Hudson, vice president of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., who says Miller has put on "a virtuoso performance." Foreign leaders agree. Typically, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who has long railed at Washington for failing to appreciate the dangers of the dollar's slide, feels that he has at last found a firm ally in Miller...
Essays on surrealism, the mimetic faculty, Brecht and the Austrian polemicist Karl Kraus support Hannah Arendt's claim that Benjamin was the most important German critic between the world wars. His romantic attachment to anarchy and violence as messianic salvations may remind some readers of Norman Mailer at his steamiest. Yet at times, Benjamin's insights cast prophetic shadows. On the effect of film and advertising, for example: "Before a child of our time finds his way clear to opening a book, his eyes have been exposed to such a blizzard of changing, colorful, conflicting letters that...