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Gulke, conductor of the Dresden State Opera, orchestrated the movement in 1978 after musicologists discovered it in a sketchbook of Schubert's and dated it two weeks before the composer's death...
From some of the burned out apartments of Fidelis Way, through shattered windows, the spires of Harvard's River Houses gleam in the distance. The ground crunches underfoot, not with fresh snow, but with broken glass. The fenced-in project looks more like post-war Dresden. The hollow buildings and junkyard streets appear uninhabitable. Many of the apartments are occupied by squatters who arrive at night and stake out empty rooms. Periodic drug raids shake up the dismal day-to-day activities at Fidelis...
...narcissism, it should have been a greater cause for concern. It was not because so many people actually liked Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" and because art critics were overwhelmed to see the masses flocking to such "blockbuster" exhibitions as Treasures of Tutankhamon and Splendor of Dresden. Few critics concerned themselves with whether these new-found museum visitors were learning anything significant about art history at these shows...
...minor nuclear weapons. Today to see the sign "no nukes" on the bumper stickers of Volkswagens and other cars driven by the educated elite at Harvard and elsewhere, brings back memories of that era of seeking to maintain the vital distinction between merely dreadful conventional weapons (which needlessly destroyed Dresden and fire-bombed Tokyo) and nuclear weapons capable through radiation as well as direct damage of the long-term destruction of life as we know...
...June an East Berlin engineer, while piloting a glider, suddenly changed course and rode thermal currents across to the West. In August a Dresden family stole a plane; though none of them had ever flown before, they managed to steer the craft across the border to a safe crash landing. Earlier this month, a driver assigned to U.S. Ambassador to East Germany David Bolen hid his family in the trunk of the envoy's official car, drove uninspected through "Checkpoint Charlie" and got political asylum in West Berlin...