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...predictable source lies in the absurdity of the current scene and the pretentious twaddle of all establishments, whether founded upon outworn socialist unrealities or rampant democratic rhetoric. Arlecq puts in a stint as a government guide, conducting a party of Indonesian comrades from Goethe's shrine in Weimar to the Buchenwald concentration camp where, in spite of his efforts, the Indonesians beam and smile, mistaking it for a prehistory museum. He also works as an interpreter at an international conference. When the Cuban spokesman takes the floor, Arlecq switches off the sound and improvises: "The general theme...
Passed over for the job of court conductor at Weimar, Bach landed a similar position with Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cothen; the defection so angered Duke Wilhelm that Bach was clapped in the Weimar jail for a month. Once he arrived at Cothen, Bach devoted five placid, productive years to superb keyboard and chamber pieces, including the French Suites for harpsichord, the unaccompanied music for cello and violin, and the six Brandenburg Concertos. This period is usually labeled Bach's secular phase, though he was not fussy about the distinction between sacred and secular. Bach often borrowed from...
...Grand Coalition, now intend to play them up in order to impress voters with what they are doing in Bonn. Explained Brandt: "In Germany, when the Social Democrats have a slight cold, it can turn into a serious pneumonia for democracy"-a reference to the fact that in the Weimar Republic, the decline of the Social Democrats coincided with the rise of the Nazis. By sidetracking Wehner, Brandt hoped to cure his party's sniffles-and ensure the continuance of two healthy parties in West Germany...
...make Germans the masters of their own house in times of national emergency. But students and other opponents insist that, despite many safeguards in the bill, the new law could lead to a repetition of 1933, when Hitler, invoking broad executive powers long since done away with, suspended the Weimar Constitution and made him self a dictator...
...fall of Weimar and the rise of Hitler is accomplished in a paragraph...