Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking to a very pretty American girl recently who said that her first reaction to European males was one of considerable shock because the kind of touching behavior, the kind of behavior between males, was something that she would have been horrified to see in the men she had grown up with. This strikes me as a very American attitude, because of its rigidity, because of its absolute exclusiveness, because of its treatment of this as something horrible and beyond the pale...
Until recently, European monetary markets were constantly unsettled by the 15% to 20% gap between the French franc, which had been overvalued, and the mark, which had been undervalued. Taking into consideration the removal of the year-old 4% "quasi-revaluation" tax on German exports, Germany's actions last week, combined with France's devaluation in August, closed this gap and added a new stability to the world of money. England's Financial Times commented: "There is a better chance now than for many months past that the exchange markets will settle down to a quieter...
Anguish of the Age. Put that way, the Artaudian conception of theater sounds a trifle sadistic, and it can be comprehended only as a refraction of the European experience in the 20th century, with all of its tortures and holocausts...
Pennsylvania. $6. A dry study of how the private sector in Britain helped shape foreign policy between 1957 and 1967, particularly Britain's assaults on the European Common Market...
...IDEA OF THE JEWISH STATE by Ben Halpern. 493 pages. Harvard University. $15. The 19th century European "Jewish problem" was never solved; it just moved to the Middle East. Through the thickets of history and power politics, Halpern maneuvers with rare discernment and objectivity, giving an account of both the Jewish state and its hostile neighbors...