Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berlin Wall comes tumbling down and the two Germanies grow closer together, Germans will increasingly identify with one another and will grow resentful of years of forced separation. Surging German pride will slowly smooth over ideological divisions between East and West and increase pressure for reunification...
Live ABC transmissions from the heart of Berlin that showed a new opening in the Berlin Wall probably seemed innocuous to most viewers. But those who looked over Peter Jenning's shoulder couldn't help but notice a large swastika spray-painted on the Wall. It's true that people spray paint swastikas on public walls in the United States. But American never unified behind a symbol which stands for world domination and the annihilation of entire races...
WHEN the Berlin Wall effectively came crumbling down over a week ago, the reforms in East Germany suddenly became more than an abstract political issue. No longer were the decisions of a few leaders the center of attention. No longer were political junkies the only ones interested in the reforms. Now we could all relate to what was going on, by focusing on the personal experiences of ordinary Berliners...
...mean that leaving Harvard Yard and entering the consumeristic picnic of Harvard Square is analogous to leaving East Berlin for the West. I have the other direction in mind. Entering the Yard to become a Harvard student is analogous to walking through the Wall to West Berlin: it's a way of becoming bourgeois, even if the process here is not so shockingly immediate...
...significance of the Wall extended far beyond the city, far beyond Germany. It became an epitome of the partitioning of Europe, the overarching symbol of the cold war and one of the places where the Western alliance and the Warsaw Pact came gunsight to gunsight. After the magnificent oratory of John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, it was de rigueur for U.S. Presidents -- and other Western leaders -- to come and shake their fists at the Wall and call down imprecations against those who had conceived and built it. But the barrier also stood as a reminder...