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...diversion. But there is a hollowness to the cheers and the martial music. Weintraub follows an English schoolgirl running happily down a hallway, only to find a teacher weeping in her classroom. She had been widowed by the war. A bitter German slogan is brought back from the front: "Wir siegen uns zu Tode" (We'll conquer until we're all dead). And Gertrude Stein addresses a wounded French soldier: "Well, here is peace." The poilu replies, "At least for 20 years." As the world knows, his timing was tragically correct, almost to the hour, the day and the year...
...planning et research on le manpowerisation of a complexe industrielle before taking off for le weekend in le country. German now is splattered with such terms as discount house, shopping center, ready to wear and cash and carry. And the latest expression in Frankfurt ad agencies is Ziehn wir's am Flaggenmast hoch und sehn wir wer gruesst -Let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes...
Willy ist so gut nicht, Darum rufen wir euch zu Besser ist der Ludwig Und die C.D.U...
...hush was officially decreed in West Berlin, the city rocked instead to a deafening cacophony. East German loudspeakers responded with Communist marching songs. The klaxonfest might have gone on for hours but for the arrival of a carrot-topped youth clutching an eight-foot crucifix inscribed in white letters: Wir Klagen An [We Accuse]. With a bellow that brought half a dozen other young Berliners to his side, the lad, a 20-year-old factory worker named Dieter Bielig, raced to the Wall and brandished the cross at the fuming Grenzpolizei (border police). The West Berlin crowd, held back...
...that the first half be given over to J. S. Bach. There was the monumental Prelude and Fugue in G Major; and the three-movement Trio Sonata No. 1 in E Flat, one of the most treacherous challenges in the entire literature. Of the two chorale-preludes, Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier presented a constant parade of startling dissonances. Later periods were represented by Mozart's charming, if second-drawer, Sonata No. 15 in C; Brahms' rich-textured Fugue in A Flat Minor (a most rare key); and Hermann Schroeder's chorale-prelude Schoenster Herr Jesu...