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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There they were, dancing on the wall, with their cigarettes and miniskirts. These students were spending a typical Friday night doing the atypical. I know I should be there, and frankly, I'm jealous...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Discontent Over Democracy | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...first I was ecstatic. The pictures of kids prying chips from the Berlin Wall is not easily forgotten. "Can you believe it?" I thought, "Something is finally going right...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Discontent Over Democracy | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...recent events were clearly not an outpouring of nationalism, but a celebration of freedom. The destruction of the wall was not seen as the sign of regaining German strength (after all, it is Mikhail Gorbachev, not Germany, who was largely responsible for the dramatic changes), but the reunion with relatives, old and new friends was celebrated. Contrast this, for example, to the Anschluss of Austria or the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, where people cheered at parading tanks and soldiers. I think the difference could hardly be more striking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thoughts on Reunification | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

...wanted to create a novel about New York City in the manner of Zola's and Balzac's novels about Paris or Thackeray's Vanity Fair. He kept waiting for some novelist to encompass the great phenomena of the age -- the hippie movement, say, or racial clashes or the Wall Street boom. But no one came forward. "It had been only yesterday, in the 1930s, that the big realistic novel, with its broad social sweep, had put American literature on the world stage for the first time," Wolfe writes, apparently forgetting such pre-1930s writers as Mark Twain, Henry James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Wolfe Among the Pigeons | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Peter G. Peterson, an American involved in the Sony-Columbia deal, wondered why Sony's acquisition was so controversial, while an Australian firm's attempted takeover of MGM/UA "was mainly treated by the media as a minor business news item." Part of the answer, he suggested in the Wall Street Journal, is a "media pandering to American xenophobia and latent racism." Sony chairman Akio Morita, noting the U.S. Government's World War II internment of Japanese Americans, surmised that Americans still see the Japanese as "strangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Yellow-Peril Journalism | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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