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West Berlin is the focal point of more than one cold war. Outside the towering glass-and-metal headquarters of Publisher Axel Springer, burly guards are posted at every door. Loudspeakers have been installed that emit such a high-pitched whine that it will pain the eardrums of would-be invaders. From the East, over the Wall that runs alongside the building? Not at all. From the West. Militant West Berlin students have threatened to break into the plant and smash the printing presses-not to mention the faces of any Springer personnel who get in their way. To which...
This confrontation in Berlin reflects a growing polarization of German politics (see THE WORLD) which has put Axel Springer, 55, to the right of center. When the coalition government was formed last winter, the far left was out in the cold with nowhere to go. As its frustrations deepened, so did its militancy. One of the principal targets of its wrath, exaggerated far beyond its threat, is Springer...
Like Johnson, he is utterly professional, prolific and peripatetic. He is first of all a critic (Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore) who transcends academic specialties with broad, humanistic learning and spirited eclecticism. He is also a journalist and essayist (The Bit Between My Teeth), an intellectual tourist (Europe Without Baedeker), a sociopolitical historian (To the Finland Station), and a fitfully effective poet, playwright and novelist (Memoirs of Hecate County). Through his weighty lucid sentences rumbles a Johnsonian authority whose trenchant insights are alloyed with grumpy good sense, and whose occasional wrongheadedness can be more interesting than many writers...
...circulation continues to grow at a considerably faster rate than the Jewish community. The paper will no doubt maintain its power because it has proved to be as important to Germany as it has been to the Jewish community. "We Germans need a watchdog for our democracy," says Axel Springer, the nation's biggest press lord. "That is exactly what the Jewish Weekly...
...public relations officer for a huge shipbuilding corporation. Among the people he encounters: Annerose, a muddled, blue-eyed Venus who has deserted a wealthy husband, set herself up as a fashionable couturiere, and now longs for a "total commitment"-to a person, to a cause, to anything at all; Axel, a dazzling, dispassionate mystic of the absurd who has resigned his university lectureship to work in a hospital ward for thalidomide babies and preach a gospel of gratuitous, existential love, which Annerose finds appealing but scarcely persuasive; Octavio, a muscular young industrialist who believes in exactly nothing and who finally...