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...message was plainly political -- a prayer service to honor some 20 East German dissidents jailed last month for disturbing the peace and having "treasonous contacts." A few years ago, such a meeting would have been unthinkable in tightly controlled East Germany. But the glasnost breezes from Moscow seem to have emboldened a new generation to challenge the regime of Erich Honecker...
...festivals are staged in intimate Tyrolean villages built on the order of cuckoo clocks and peopled largely by Peter Sellers. But this year's host, for 16 days starting Saturday, is Calgary, Canada, a prairie town muscled into an oil capital, a sprawling city in every sense. Venues may seem a bit more scattered than usual, but this is where Canadian ingenuity comes in. The writer Pierre Berton offers a definition: "A Canadian is someone who could make love in a canoe." After all, isn't intimacy part balance and part illusion? From an American standpoint, another attraction...
Read this way, European history looks subtly different. Supposedly decisive battles such as the destruction of the Spanish armada in 1588 or Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 seem instead to be foregone conclusions, the visible death throes of nations that had previously mismanaged or squandered their resources. Kennedy does not subscribe to the "Great Man" theory of history. He acknowledges that his account of the Napoleonic wars tends "to downplay the more personal aspects of this story, such as Napoleon's own increasing lethargy and self-delusion." But the author insists that inspiring < leaders or brilliant generals...
Many Britons seem prepared to accept that British manners, a tradition no less dear than the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, are in decline. What roils some Brits is that Americans are giving the advice. Harrumphed a commentator in the Daily Mail: "Surely it is the depth of bureaucratic rudeness to imply there is not a single native of these shores capable of inculcating patience and good manners...
...toast of the evening is Anita Houch, who plays Dr. Henrietta Reilly. In the original script, the doctor and Alex, another guest, were men, but in this production women play the roles. The sex changes do not seem to matter very much, and they certainly work well...