Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West German generals tell it, their soldiers are so inept and so lacking in morale that they would scarcely be a match for the Beefeaters in the Tower of London or the halberd-bearing papal guard. Speaking to a closed session of officers at the Leadership Academy near Hamburg, Major General Helmuth Grashey complained that the Bundeswehr (literally, Federal Defense Force) is burdened with too much civilian bureaucracy and hounded by an ombudsman who undermines officers' authority by listening sympathetically to soldiers' gripes...
There was nothing soft or dreamy about Nabokov. He seems to have been an astonishingly disciplined, highly competitive, hopeless overperformer. His cousin Nicolas, a composer living in Hamburg, remembers Vladimir at 18 as tall, handsome and insufferably skillful at nearly everything?though he always smelled slightly of the ether he used to kill the specimen butterflies he caught. When Vladimir was enrolled in a liberal school expressly chosen by his father, he resented a master's suggestion that the Nabokov coachman deposit him several blocks away so he could arrive at class democratically afoot. A more galling comment, though, came...
...Abolish Sweden." In divided Berlin, fog and rain kept most Berliners at home watching competing parades on TV. There were four in all, divided between West and East Berlin. In its typical out-of-step-with-the-times fashion, East Berlin held an old-fashioned military march-past. In Hamburg, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt was heckled by students and greeted with "Sieg Heil!" salutes...
...moment of wrath, Hamburg State Opera Impresario Rolf Liebermann once exclaimed: "It's the directors who ruin everything. It's never the composer, conductor or singers. The directors are just so many dilettanti who don't know their job. Their only concern is their own vanity...
...gifts and partly because he had chosen the illumination of fans as a special project for Vienna's famous arts and crafts school, the Wiener Werkstatte, where he worked as an apprentice and later as a teacher. Al though one was destroyed, the remaining six were acquired by Hamburg's Museum of Arts and Crafts in West Germany. Their jaded elegance evokes the Vienna of the Habsburgs, Freud and Franz Lehar, though they would have rocked the city at the time...