Word: personals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadly inhuman person," Willy Brandt said of Willi Stoph some years ago. Whether Brandt would like to revise that assessment after his meeting with East Germany's Premier last week at Erfurt remains to be seen. To be sure, the shy, introverted Stoph (rhymes with loaf) is not exactly the cuddly type. In a country where telling jokes about political leaders has long been a favorite pastime, no German-East or West-can readily recall any gags about the steely, erect and correct Stoph. But he does seem to inspire respect...
...young West Germans who have come to the city specifically to be alone-a situation that weighs heavily around Christmastime, a high suicide season in West Berlin. The Wall, Thomas notes, has only enhanced the divided city as a concrete image of "the pre-suicidal syndrome in the person." Nowhere else, in short, is a troubled personality more likely to turn into a suicidal...
While all his plays may simply be personal fantasies, Horovitz does not see how a play can be detached from current social issuess. even if it is an ineffectual way of dealing with them. This tremendous concern has led him to shoulder the burden of speaking at rallies, of being more direct in approach, of skipping the comedy, the dialogue and civilized ritual of a play for the head-on rhetoric of a speech. However, this role has not satisfied him either. "At the time I saw 2001, I found it so irrelevant that I couldn't get into...
...kind of conversation you might well have in a Harvard House." Wilson said yesterday. "We talked about everything." He refused to elaborate on the meeting, saying that "a person has a right to a private conversation...
...Bill King, a person's gesture is as revealing as his signature. The knowing arch of an eyebrow, the way a woman touches her hair, that awkward fumbling for a cigarette at a cocktail party-all tell much about a person's view of himself, his pretensions and anxieties. Walking into a room of King's sculptures, a visitor is likely to feel he has met them all some place before. And he probably has. Here is a Madison Avenue type in J. Press suit, there a teen-ager in toreadors, over there a gangly businessman...