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...large, in the Western sense of liberalism as well . . . They believe in a rule of law, of justice, as it is known in the West, and in freedom of the individual within socially recognized bounds . . ." To many Western experts, this seemed .preposterously wishful thinking. Says a Munich-based expert: "There are no liberals and no neo-Stalinists-only hard-line and soft-line men in the ideological war with the rest of the world...
...Munich, teen-agers sport peppermint-striped skirts whose hems bear the legend "Achtung, es wird getwistet" (Watch out, we're doing the twist) and wiggle to the recorded groanings of one Oliver Twist and his group, Die Happy Twisters. In West Berlin's jumping Eden
...writhing, not twisting. And he would have plenty of company-solid German doctors who warn against "accelerating one's hips and legs in opposite directions," parents and churchmen who deplore "the overt sexual implications of the dance." But some German intellectuals defend the twist. It is, says one Munich psychiatrist, "a proper cure for working off frustrations." And a psychiatrist in Berlin, where the cold war takes the rap for all sorts of aberrations, sees it as a byproduct of an anxious age. ''The twist craze," says he, "can be attributed to Atomangst...
...Eton, Sandhurst, and the Universities of Munich and Geneva. Spillane's alma mater: Fort Hays Kansas State College...
...there is also another type of mechanical music maker in existence-gigantic sound generators capable of imitating every imaginable noise, from a flute solo to an entire symphony. Some day the composers hope to link their machine to the great sound-maker at the Siemens electronic music studio in Munich. Since the Siemens machine can be made to imitate the style of any desired artist, the possibilities are devastating. The combination, suggest Barbaud and Blanchard, could make the performer as well as the composer obsolete. "What we've done," they claim, "is simply carry the old discovery that music...