Word: schiller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charming, monstrous, lonely, tortured. He was trapped in the upside-down world of jazz. Day began at dusk and ended whenever the counterfeit glow of alcohol, drugs and sex wore off. He began to use heroin to unlock the doors of creativity the way Coleridge used opium and Schiller inhaled rotten apples. Finally he lost the trick of living off the top. "Do as I say and not as I do," he admonished Trumpeter Red Rodney as he gave himself a fix. He went into a steady decline. Though his records made millions, his last years were a hell...
Minister Karl Schiller warns that the eventual result could be a border search of travelers' wallets and briefcases for forbidden dollars. In the U.S., Nixon Administration officials are discussing imposing a special surcharge on imports if the American trade balance does not improve soon. The surcharge would be keyed to the size of the U.S. deficit in trade with each country, making it highest on Japanese goods...
...declare. "The accounts do not add up." Just as newspapers and television screens were filled with news of the treaty with East Germany, Barzel countered with a tactic of his own to redirect attention to the economy. On the eve of the election, Barzel and former Finance Minister Karl Schiller, who had resigned from the government last July after losing a fight over capital controls, held several highly publicized "secret" meetings. They apparently agreed to "cooperate" (how was not specified) in returning West Germany to "stability," the Christian Democrats' favorite campaign word. Barzel's tactic won attention...
What could the former bad boy of Russian music be up to now? Fanciful theories abounded in the after-concert chatter. Rossini's William Tell is based on one of Schiller's strongest freedom plays. Was Shostakovich, by quoting from the opera, signaling his support of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other persecuted Soviet dissidents? By incorporating touches of Wagner, was Shostakovich perhaps giving artistic voice to the new spirit of friendship between the Russian and German peoples? So it went. It seemed that the new symphony, already recorded by Ormandy for RCA, might almost become as popular for guessing...
...being too clever by half. Barzel was busy delivering statistic-laden speeches calculated to convey the impression of an issue-oriented thinker. His major campaign issue will likely be inflation, which is running at 5.45% so far this year. Now Barzel's attack has been immensely strengthened by Schiller. A brilliant economist but always a prickly political bedfellow, Schiller was Brandt's "election locomotive" in 1969. Now he is steaming at the Chancellor from the opposite direction...