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Based on Voltaire's eponymous novel, Candide follows the loss of innocence of four young characters, who hail from the German town of Westphalia. This quarter features the tantalizing servant girl Paquette (Leslie Blumenthal), and Candide (Mark Meredith), the poor bastard cousin of both the narcissistic Maximilion (David Chase) and of the beautiful Cunegonde (Nan Hughes). All four are under the tutelage of the wise, omnipresent, and somewhat jaded Pangloss played superbly by Jon Tolin Pangloss also serves as the show's magnificent narrator--Voltaire in a similar vein to Salieri's narration in the stage production of Amadeus. From...
...third force now seems to be the Greens. With their strong positions against nuclear power, NATO missiles and environmental pollution, the Greens appear to have taken a substantial number of votes away from the Social Democrats. Said Johannes Rau, the Social Democratic premier of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia: "Our job is to lure our voters back from the Greens and to achieve an absolute majority of our own." If that effort means taking the same position as the Greens on many issues, West German politics will grow even more polarized. Curiously, one of the few people...
Post-election analysis has revealed some interesting insights into the dynamics of this election. Clearly, the Christian Democrats took votes almost everywhere from the Social Democrats. Even in industrial areas like North-Rhine-Westphalia, the conservative emerged as victors, scoring heavily with women and skilled workers. Although Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union---the Bavarian sister party of the Christian Democrats--polled 10.6 percent of the vote, there is evidence his party registered less than one percent gain over the last national election results. In fact, many sophisticated voters did split their two votes between the Christian Democrats...
Negotiations can be merely a smokescreen, of course: like the bargaining that the Japanese were conducting with the U.S. before Pearl Harbor. Sometimes negotiations are only empty dances of punctilio: at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, it took the delegates six months to decide in what order they would enter and be seated in the negotiating chamber; the U.S. and North Viet Nam held similarly intricate discussions about the shape of the table in Paris. Negotiations can produce their own tragedies, as Versailles did, as Yalta did. But without negotiation, things tend to fall more quickly of their...
Last year Klaus Hildebrand, professor of Modern History at the University of Muenster in Westphalia, the Federal Republic of Germany, turned down an unofficial offer for the chair and three years ago Juan Linz, professor of Sociology at Yale, also turned down an offer...