Word: unificationism
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At Dzerzhinsky, as at other East German schools, the shift from a communist to a democratic government has caused euphoria as well as anxiety. With unification promising yet more change, teachers and students are content to move cautiously as they adjust to the new political realities.
True, some of the hoariest complaints about German are as applicable today as they were when Twain wrote. To the student, nouns evince an urge for unification, glutinizing into tongue-wrenching heaps of meaning, while the dreaded trennbare, or separable, verbs divide into pieces -- a kind of linguistic mitosis that...
Eleven voices and plenty of topics. Pleasant and not so pleasant memories of school days. Personal achievements and setbacks. National guilt. Pride in a democracy and in the European family. And finally, astonishment at something not expected in their lifetime: impending unification. "We are part of the rubble generation," says...
When the issue of German unification burst out of nowhere late last year, it initially distracted attention and drained political energy from 1992 and greater European integration. As the world faces up to the nuclear corollary of the German question, Europeans may realize they have more incentive than ever to...
Unification is proving to be a disaster for terrorists. Cooperation between East and West Germany has led to the arrest of nine suspected members of the notorious Red Army Faction. All were caught in East Germany. Last week the trail reached all the way to former Communist Party boss Erich...