Word: zeitung
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...shop windows were mink-lined. But for all its air of defiant normalcy. West Berlin last week breathed suspicion and uncertainty. Dismayed at the Kennedy Administration's hints of concessions over Berlin, its leaders warned gravely that the people's nerves were wearing tissue-thin. Trumpeted Bild-Zeitung's front page: is GERMANY NOW BEING SOLD OUT? Declared one high official: "Things that were not considered possible before are now becoming possible. This is leading to a crisis of confidence...
...inspect every East German's rooftop television and F.M. aerial, tear down those that were pointed toward the stations of Wrest Berlin or West Germany. "Anyone listening to Western radio or television broadcasts is a traitor," cried an editorial in Leipzig's Sächsische Zeitung...
...Zurich and Basel, over the politics of Gollwitzer, a onetime pupil of Barth who was imprisoned for five years in a Russian P.O.W. camp. Gollwitzer, screamed Zurich papers, was a "proCommunist" who opposed West German rearmament, atomic weapons and Adenauer's policies in general. Basel's National-Zeitung jumped to Gollwitzer's defense: "This man is a radical Christian in the original sense of the word, who believes that Christ did not die on the Cross to serve as a mascot for political parties in the 20th century...
...admit to an occasional musical ray of light," said the Wiener Zeitung. "But essentially the work is dominated by that barrenness which has become a sign of progress but which is in reality a going-astray." Almost as if its critic had been in a different concert hall, the Kronen Zeitung reported that "seldom have the beauties of a score of this century been so visible, seldom has the genius of a master been so worthy of admiration as in the present case...
Though Henze's melodies were somewhat diffuse, critics were impressed with the lavish production put on by the Bavarian State Opera which featured Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Soprano Ingeborg Bremert, and they were unanimous in their praise. Said the authoritative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Henze has arrived at the point of decision. All the lessons which he learned from Verdi, Berg, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Britten and Weill have been absorbed in his tremendously creative feeling for sounds and his sense of the dramatic." This mixture of old and new, of atonality and traditional harmony, was precisely what Henze was after...