Word: municheer
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...obscure opera singer is kneeling on the floor of a small apartment in Munich. Before her lie cloth and scissors. She is making her own costume for another night's work in another small town. Suddenly, word arrives that in Manhattan the fabled Metropolitan Opera desperately needs a soprano in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Off goes our heroine in her Lufthansa pumpkin and lands the job. The audiences love her. So do the critics. The New York Times announces on Page One: "A triumph...
With the emphasis now on preventing further attacks, passengers are paying the price in both inconvenience and security expenses added to their tickets. In Munich, the Bavarian Interior Ministry demands written guarantees that arriving passengers at Riem Airport have been searched before takeoff. When airlines refuse such guarantees, their planes are ordered to an isolated runway, and passengers and luggage are thoroughly examined. Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin uses a code to indicate to air crews if any embarking passengers are Arab. At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, overhead walkways have been closed off, and armed soldiers patrol them. Most...
...Social Democratic Party is in poor shape, riven by conflicts between the radical young socialists (JUSOS) and the party establishment (TIME, April 23, 1973). The JUSOS frighten voters with their intemperate Marxist rhetoric. They dominate local meetings with their aggressive harangues, and they control the party organizations in Munich and Frankfurt...
Parker has also coached three American Olympic teams culminating with a silver medal at Munich in 1972 won by a heavyweight crew that included six of his former Harvard oarsmen...
...TIME contends that gunboat diplomacy is anachronistic [Dec. 24]. You cite Viet Nam and the resulting catastrophe of intervention in that civil war as proof of your thesis. It was our mistaken use of "We don't want another Munich" that led us to catastrophe in Viet Nam. It could be that the cry "We don't want another Viet Nam" will lead us to further, more serious mistakes. Our foreign policy should be governed by careful analysis, not careless analogy...