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...Hungary and Poland could dilute their socialism and still remain ethnic and national entities. But such experiments in East Germany, its leaders fear, would simply hasten the swallowing of their state by the larger Federal Republic next door. In the well-noted words of senior Communist Party ideologist Otto Reinhold, "What reason would a capitalist G.D.R. have for existing next to a capitalist Federal Republic? None, naturally...
...another disturbance during one of Cage's earlier lectures, a cassette player went off and played "some kind of rock music," said Professor of Music Reinhold Brinkmann. The machine was eventually turned off, and no one tried to find out who was responsible, Brinkmann said...
...executives who bought Nu-kote also felt ignored by their corporate parent. After the 1986 merger of the Burroughs and Sperry computer companies that produced Unisys, corporate headquarters decreed in a confidential memo that "ancillary" units would be put on the auction block. Reinhold Tischler, then president of the Nu-kote division, called his boss and said, "Ancillary division reporting in. We'd like to buy it." On Jan. 16, 1987 -- Tischler calls it Independence Day -- he and 20 other managers bought Nu-kote for $60 million. After they eliminated several aging product lines, overall sales grew 17% last year...
...Cage] has written world music history," said Professor Reinhold Brinkmann of the Music Department, who introduced the speaker. "He is a true figure of integration of Western and Eastern culture...
Before I leave the topic of the word, of language and of literature, I want to say something about the spoken word. The best speaker I heard in my life was Reinhold Niebuhr, the American theologian and philosopher. I first heard him at Friends' House, London, in July 1946. He spoke for an hour without notes, and he had us in the hollow of his hand. One of his themes was the potential goodness of individual man, and the potential wickedness of collective man. An individual man could become a saint, but collective man was a tough proposition. He broke...