Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...globe. Many of them declare outright that things are growing worse in the international community, and there could be real trouble if Carter does not take hold soon. The Soviets are coming to the conclusion that he can be pushed around, and the Chinese are mildly contemptuous. Western European leaders are nervous; they feel that Carter talks and acts convincingly in meetings-but then nothing happens with his policies...
Shahak advocates equal rights for all residents of Israel--whether they be Jewish, Christian or Muslim, Middle Eastern or European in background, Israeli citizens or residents of the occupied territories...
...already some critical analyses of what the common program would do to the French economy. For one thing, there would be the familiar stultifying effects of nationalization and egalitarian pay policies. Moreover, according to a recent study by Eurofinance, a Paris-based research firm whose shareholders include leading European and U.S. banks, the left is unlikely to do much better than Giscard's government in solving France's economic problems. If the common program were enacted, the study argues, the program's large wage increases, combined with price freezes, would increase workers' buying power. But there...
...poetry revealed the same confiding voice that animated his conversation. The controlled metrics of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951) show the influence of Lowell's mentors, Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom. In Imitations (1961), freely licensed translations of European poets, and in The Old Glory, a trilogy of plays based on stories by Melville and Hawthorne, Lowell employed a more conventional rhetoric than in the poems about his private experience. But it was in Life Studies, For the Union Dead (1964) and the sprawling sonnets that occupied three books that...
Land first used his huge camera back in 1976 to make and then display for his stockholders a reproduction of his favorite Renoir. The Museum of Fine Arts has used the giant camera more recently to shoot the usually hidden side of a prized possession, a 15th century European tapestry titled The Martyrdom of St. Paul. Despite the best efforts of experts to preserve the side visible to the public, it has gradually deteriorated and faded. But when the museum recently replaced the tapestry's linen backing (a once-in-50-years undertaking), the camera was used to photograph...