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Thus, with a ruffle of pennants and a flourish of rhetoric, the German Democratic Republic last week celebrated the restoration of the Semper Opera House, 40 years to the day after one of Germany's most gracious cities was destroyed in a blazing rain of fire bombs. Despite the propaganda, the occasion was another significant step in the postwar cultural reconstruction of Europe. Dresden, a baroque jewel set gracefully on the banks of the Elbe, has long been a center of German musical life. It boasts a distinguished lineage of kapellmeisters that extends back to Heinrich Schutz in the 17th...
...Communist regime has responded to the growing sense of dislocation by appealing to German nationalism and the past glories of Prussia and Saxony. At least 80 local artists and 400 craftsmen have spent four years and $120 million meticulously restoring the Semper Opera in Dresden, which was destroyed in an Anglo-American fire bombing raid in 1945. The famous equestrian statue of Frederick the Great that graced the Unter den Linden until World War II has returned to its pedestal like an old piece of furniture reclaimed from the attic and restored to its proper place. The sudden fascination with...
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Your story about General Paul X. Kelley's conversation with a wounded Marine [Nov. 7] reveals the general's naiveté. In the language of the Marine Corps, Semper Fi does not mean "always faithful." The expression connotes something rather different...
Mary Cunningham is co-owner, with her husband William Agee, of Semper Enterprises Inc., a venture capital and consulting firm. She formed many of her opinions about the press three years ago after reading numerous stories about her relationship with Agee, then her boss at Bendix Corp...