Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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At the archives, some material still lies in sacks, a reminder of the confusing citizens' takeover of Stasi headquarters in the early days of the East German revolution. Last week rules were issued that permitted access to those charged with collaborating with the Stasi and those seeking rehabilitation from past...
Labor strikes in the coal-producing regions and elsewhere have contributed their share in crippling the national economy, already weakened by inflation. The irony of these strikes, of course, is that the workers shouldn't need to strike in a state where they are by law their own bosses. With...
The Harvard English department is still beset by a plague that infested the "academic" and "classical" traditions in the wake of the Industrial Revolution: Anglophilia as an easy measure of haute couture. Nineteenth-century old-world wealthy intellectuals differentiated themselves from nouveau riche with cultural Euro-centric distinctions; these distinctions...
A year ago, before revolution toppled the Communists in what used to be the German Democratic Republic, so matter-of-fact an assessment would have been unthinkable. Lafontaine, the charismatic Saarland state premier, looked like a strong challenger to Kohl, who was less respected and less popular than his party...
Smith drives the potentially confusing narrative with such clarity that it all reads like an eyewitness account. Despite his optimism, he identifies obstacles to progress: an economy nearing collapse, violent nationalism and separatism, an obstructionist bureaucracy, a lackadaisical Russian attitude toward work, a "culture of envy." In spite of all...