Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preparing to plunge into a grab bag of nations (Brazil, Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, France, Poland and Belgium) with little hope of emerging with a common theme or coherent message. The inclusion of Brazil and Iran ruled out an overall emphasis on human rights, and the European portion made it difficult to bill the exercise as a courtesy call on the Third World...
While many American students now show up ill-prepared or the rigors of college, their European counterparts fare better. Many U.S. universities often allow British and French students to enter as sophomores. Few Soviet students enter U.S. colleges as undergraduates, but the best Russian teen-agers are probably also better drilled in the basics. A look at school systems in the three countries...
...draws back, and it is seen that the face is that of a middle-aged woman, naked. The fingers are those of a white-coated man who seems to be a doctor. This man now speaks, dictating notes to a secretary: "Lower lip fleshy . . . prognathous jaw typical of non-European races ... could well belong to the Semitic race . . . case doubtful...
Guido G. Goldman '59, executive director of the Center for European Studies, said yesterday he foresees "an increasing willingness to see uniformed authorities on the streets, tighter border security and more pressure for the death penalty...
...merely to engineer or observe acts of humiliation. He is also an avenging angel. At an Alpine ski resort he blows up the vacationing henchman who tortures the subjects of a Middle East potentate. He devises an excruciating end for a New York hotel clerk who betrays visiting Eastern European guests to their native apparatchiks. This deed over, Levanter privately gloats because authorities cannot discover a plot linking killer and victim. As he does so, the murder is already fading from memory: "It was nothing but an old Polaroid snapshot; no negative, photographer unknown, camera thrown away...