Word: continente
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In Africa, political stability is a thin veneer that can flake off with the slightest scratch of a military finger. Since mid-December, three black governments* have been toppled by military coup. For a while last week Nigeria seemed on its way to becoming the fourth. What makes Nigeria different...
On the Continent, the philosophical revolt took a different form. Germany's Edmund Husserl developed a "descriptive science" that he called phenomenology. His method was to examine and describe a particular experience-at the same time mentally blocking off any speculations about its origin or significance, any memories of...
...such European banking centers as Frankfurt, Antwerp, Zurich, Geneva and Milan. The Chase, New York's First National City Bank, the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co, and California's Bank of America led the way. The movement has grown so strong that such banks as Chicago's Continental Illinois and Boston's First National are also opening European branches or buying into European banks. U.S. branches are now scattered across the Continent; seven opened last year alone...
Most women prefer, for simple economic reasons, to go to the salon. To be sure, an appointment at Mr. Kenneth's may find Mr. Kenneth himself a continent away, ministering to clients who have requested his personal services. But each of the 22 assistants he employs can cut and...
He was sure, too, that people would be good to him, and so, of course, they were. Giuseppe Siboni, director of the Royal Singing Academy in Copenhagen, took him in off the street to sing at a dinner party, and gave him lessons till his voice broke. The Danish Royal...