Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's greatest vulnerability, however, may be overseas. A President has a freer hand in foreign policy than in domestic matters, but he also has more of an opportunity to make mistakes. West European and Japanese leaders are increasingly alarmed by Carter's habit of moralizing without a proper appreciation of power realities, a tendency they feel is all the more exaggerated in one of his assistant policymakers, Andrew Young. They fear, above all, that Carter may be weakening the U.S. capacity to stand up to the still adventurous and aggressive Soviet Union. He has taken a series...
...Soviet side, there is great insistence that SALT II prohibit the U.S. from transferring technology-specifically, the cheap, effective cruise missile-to its European allies. U.S. officials have rejected such a proposal. At best, they say they will agree to limits on testing and deployment of the cruise for a fixed period of time...
Last year, according to bank estimates, Sweden was one of the three Western European countries to suffer a fall in gross national product (the others: Britain and Finland), and its drop of 2.5% was the largest. At the same time, it suffered a balance of payments deficit of $3.4 billion, industrial output fell more than 4%, inflation roared along at 16% and real unemployment...
...Anna, becomes autistic after her rape by drunken Nazis; in a procession of the retarded and aged, she is gassed at the euthanasia center at Hadamar. A younger son, Rudi, joins Jewish partisans fighting in the Ukraine; he survives to depart for Palestine after the war-the rebirth of European Jewry. Parallel runs the story of Erik Dorf, a prissily murderous family man and SS officer around whom nearly all the horrific deeds of genocide have been densely crowded. In these characters Green embodies the story of history's most evil episode...
...contribute a lot to the bottom part of the iceberg, the resonance of a play." One of the exercises that the Figaro actors did was to turn their characters into statues, and then make the statues grow larger and larger. Figaro employs a very theatrical style of acting, gestured, European, Latin. "The characters have to be very big, but they must be rich, not caricatured," Havergal says...