Word: european
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week were hard at work trying to iron out details, such as what the "organism's" corporate name should be and where it should be head quartered (perhaps in Switzerland). Still, Bercot, for one, felt confident enough about the outcome to hail the agreement as a purely "European solution" to the threat of American industrial dominance on the Continent...
...same time, Fiat's Agnelli has never made a secret of his ambition to turn his highly successful company (1967 sales: $1.9 billion) into the first Europewide, European-owned automaker. He is convinced that such a firm will be necessary in the 1970s if the European auto industry is to weather American competition. He therefore let it be known that if he could not strike a bar gain with Citroën he would look elsewhere-perhaps toward West Germany's Volkswagen. Such a combine might so overwhelm France's entire auto industry that it would crumble...
...settles on his recollections of an old acquaintance, Hymen Lustgarten, a former Marxist from New Jersey who has passed through all the radical ideological incarnations of the '30s. Lustgarten loses at everything, including the postwar European black market and the Laundromat business in Algeria. But as Bellow reveals in a balance of satire and compassion, Lustgarten's failures brim with life juices while Mosby's successes are empty and dry. "Having disposed of all things human," Bellow concludes, "he should have encountered God . . . But having so disposed, what God was there to encounter...
...rivers and water were almost calligraphic in their approach, assimilating the idiom of Japanese expression through the medium of the camera. The photographs of the Nixon-Eisenhower campaign in Texas brought home the unbiased catholicism of Cartier-Bresson's intuition. He did not exploit or criticize, as a European or an artist, the stark tribal events of this country, but rather absorbed the faces, the landscapes, the posters...
...sign of the trend's strength is the arrival in the U.S. of European bankers similar to the march of U.S. banks into Europe during the 1950s. Within the past year, British, German, Dutch and Belgian investment and commercial bankers have considerably expanded operations in New York-the better to serve the growing European encampment...