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Americans and Germans alike remember well the day in 1963 when a visiting U.S. President, John Kennedy, gave voice to his feelings about the two-year- old Wall that ran like a jagged scar through Berlin: "Ich bin ein Berliner." His message was more than a metaphoric statement of solidarity with the people of that divided city. It was an appeal to the Wall's Communist architects to tear down the 26-mile-long concrete monstrosity. Today the Wall continues to pierce the hearts of Berliners every bit as effectively as its pipes, barbed wires and other sharp obstacles once...
Monday, 11--Tired of charges of that he is a carpetbagger, Rep. Joe Kennedy today announced that he was moving his family to a home within the city limits of Cambridge. "I am pleased to announce that as of this moment, Ich Bin Ein Cantabrigian...
JANE CORMIER PETERSON (who lists among her accomplishments a first place in the New England Young Soloists' Competition) as the dreaded "Queen of the Night" definitely provided the headiest and most musical highpoints of last Thursday night's production. Her first act "Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren" (Fate hath decreed me doomed to suffer) aria was sung with soulful pathos and true heartfelt sorrow as she lamented her lost daughter Pamina's fate...
Then, as his peroration, Reagan sought to make universal the contest between democracy and totalitarianism of any sort. "The struggle for freedom is not complete, for much of the world is still cast in totalitarian darkness." Invoking John F. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" pronouncement of 1963, Reagan continued: "Today freedom-loving people around the world must say, 'I am a Berliner. I am a Jew in a world still threatened by anti- Semitism. I am an Afghan and I am a prisoner of the gulag. I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast...
...well as other synthopop groups) doesn't understand is that by taking the ragged, rough-shorn mania out of early rock 'n'foll, they take out its heart (and its greatness). Covers like "Tutti Frutti" don't reinterpret the originals; they lobotomise them. Trio fares a little better with "Ich Lieb den Rock'n' Roll" because it's a little faster paced, although the group should learn that power riffing does not equal energy...