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...European," the German-born Eicher noted during a talk in ECM's unprepossessing offices overlooking a parking lot in Munich. "And I'm very consciously a product of this continent. I will instinctively link everything I do with the musical achievements accumulated in these latitudes for more than 2,500 years." Long on cerebration and sometimes short on funk, the Eicher approach evolved from early infatuations with Coleman, John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Talking about jazz, he still sounds like a booster for the home team. "As much as I like and appreciate the African spontaneity that propels...
When he was still in high school, Eicher hitchhiked from his home in Lindau, on Lake Constance, into Munich to catch a Dizzy Gillespie concert, and a few years later, on scholarship to the august Berlin Academy of Music, he lived on yogurt so he would not have to skimp on his record collection. Production-assistant jobs around various Munich recording studios kept him in curds and vinyl until he met up with Karl Egger, a burly purveyor of discount audio and records. Egger suggested to Eicher that they record displaced American jazzmen who had fled the rock-dominated music...
Having won the 200-breast in Munich at the 1972 games and the 100 in 1976, while lowering his own world record to 1:03.11. the veteran Santa Clara Swim Club member missed a chance to become the only swimmer ever to earn gold medals in three Olympics, when the U.S. chose to boycott...
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain emerged from the 1938 Munich Conference, having ceded a slice of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, and made his slogan "peace in our time" synonymous with disastrous appeasement. Chamberlain's policy was largely a reflection of the popular pacifist sentiment in prewar Britain. Only a hopeless alarmist would suggest that such calamitous history might be repeating itself today. But Western military experts and policymakers are undeniably concerned by an increasing reluctance by Europe's man-in-the-street to accept the necessity of self-defense...
...veritable cult of détente has led at times to an almost obsequious public attitude toward Moscow. "Many people in this country do not want to upset the Russians. There is definitely a pacifist mood," says Christian Democrat Deputy Manfred Worner. Admits a West German manufacturer in Munich: "If it were a choice between giving the Russians more influence here and even a limited war, we would opt for the Russians." A youth group affiliated with the Free Democratic Party last week opposed the deployment of U.S. cruise missiles, claiming that such a use of this weapon "represents only...