Word: leipzig
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Easier but wrong. Because, as strange as the notion may seem to those who view opera as Dr. Johnson's "exotic and irrational entertainment," art matters. It matters in Czechoslovakia, where a playwright has become President; in East Germany, where a Leipzig conductor, Kurt Masur, was a spiritual leader of the peaceful revolution; in Lithuania, where a musicologist is seeking to lead his land out of the Soviet Union. And it matters in Paris, where the Socialist Mitterrand has undertaken a series of cultural public-works projects that have enhanced the quality of life in the world's most beautiful...
Finally, 30 of us came together on Sept. 9 near Berlin. I knew only a third of them. We worked out our manifesto. Our meeting coincided with the exodus through Hungary and the mounting demonstrations in Leipzig. It became a grass- roots movement. People were copying the manifesto everywhere. The regime could not have been overthrown by a party, only by this kind of popular uprising...
...most other Germans, East and West. A poll taken by a Leipzig sociological institute last month indicated that Modrow's once omnipotent party was favored by only 12% of the electorate, in contrast to a commanding 53% for the SPD, which is closely allied with West Germany's opposition SPD. But in the same poll, 52% named Modrow as the country's most trusted political figure, a startling result in a country fed up with Communists. By contrast, Ibrahim Bohme, the SPD leader and Modrow's probable successor as Prime Minister, scored only 15%. In West Germany another popularity ranking...
...Gorbachev revolution came home last week. Many of the words and images were familiar from last year's upheavals in Eastern Europe, but the setting was new: at the geographical and political center of the Communist world. This time it was not in Prague, Budapest or Leipzig but in Moscow that citizens thronged the streets with banners that could be loosely translated THROW THE BUMS OUT! This time it was in the Kremlin that the bums themselves seemed to take heed and the custodians of absolute power began the process of giving it up. And this time Mikhail Sergeyevich...
Rather, let's give credit where credit is due: to the people of Eastern Europe, the marchers in Prague's Wenceslas Square, the courageous protesters in Leipzig, the thousands slaughtered in Bucharest. They, along with their martyred kindred in Beijing, are the People of the Decade...