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...PETER J. SCHON Flint, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 24, 1964 | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...holiday season ends-many of them more than once. Tears and brandy flowed as the first visitors crossed the Wall. Grandparents sized up snowsuited two-year-olds they had never seen except in photographs. "Does the baby meet the family standards?" asked one proud West German mother. "Ja, schon," wept the grandmother. Although the West Berliners arrived laden with everything from Lebkuchen to long underwear, not all the gifts came from their side of the Wall. One East German lad blew a year's savings on two geese, a sweater and a bottle of brandy to welcome his long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: The Hole in the Wall | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

...Early in Act I, Lulu's aging husband surprises her in the arms of an artist and would-be lover (Stanley Kolk), and dies of a heart attack. She marries the artist, but he, in turn, commits suicide when he discovers that Lulu is still in love with Schon, an abusive former lover. Schon tries to escape the Lulu hex with another woman, but Lulu later shoots him to death. And the round of grasping, joyless love goes on. Thoroughly depraved, Lulu even becomes involved with her stepson and a lesbian named Countess Geschwitz. Eventually she destroys both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: The Hellish Drive | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...syntax will help the machine with idiomatic expressions. Literally translated, "Das gibt sich schon" (This will subside in time) would come out as "This gives itself already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Translation Trouble | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...Veronica was a fraulein in an occupation Stars and Stripes cartoon by Don Sheppard. Parodying the initials VD, Sheppard called the girl "Veronica Danke schon." More than one-third of the Celle Veronicas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Veronica Town | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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