Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NOCK FAMILY CIRCUS, by Ursula Huber, illustrated by Celestino Piatti (Atheneum; $4.95). The behind-the-scenes story of a small European traveling circus, illustrated with vigor and detail by the famous Swiss poster artist...
...warm-up for Henley, the lights plan to enter a regatta on the Bosbaan Canal in Amsterdam, June 29-30. Although he did not know anything yet about the competition, Andersen said that Bosbaan usually attracts some of the better European crews...
...language into their native tongue. The real problem is matching the language talent with a particular skill area, since most assignments are translations of technical articles. IGS has had great luck with the translating bureau, making use of such unusual skills as a Czechoslovakian-speaking graduate student in East European physical science with secret security clearance. A company happened to be looking for someone with just this combination of skills. A student whose parents are Hungarian but who had lived in Germany was once asked to translate a marriage license from Hungarian into German...
...Communist Europe, however, the Bureaucrat has unbounded power over both the material and spiritual resources of society. Such total control is inherent in a Communist state--once you begin to centralize authority it becomes very difficult to set limits on it. Thus, in the European Communist countries, artistic freedom was for a long time very tightly restricted. And it is precisely because this kind of control over personal life represents the furthest, and least defensible, encroachment of Bureaucratic power that the Intelluectuals of the Communist countries have found it possible to struggle for Political Liberty under the banner of Cultural...
DOMESTIC confrontations of this kind in the East European countries, despite their covert political nature, might not have led to the present tensions in the area if it had not been for one other factor: Liberalization also seems to entail a heavy dose of Nationalism--which in East Europe means independence from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had come to be closely identified with the repressive Stalinist regimes of the past. The memory of the blatant economic exploitation carried out by the Soviet Union in the early 50's contributes to the bitterness felt by today's liberal reformers...