Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that: 1) the U.S. cannot do anything to stop these trends and should not try; 2) the trends are not necessarily bad because Eurocommunists are different, representing a needed and probably democratic opposition to worn-out governments; and 3) nothing much would change if a few Communists join Western European Cabinets...
Kissinger blasted all these assumptions as delusions, in one of the most eloquent and closely reasoned speeches of his career. Speaking at a conference on Italy and Eurocommunism at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, he issued a powerful warning-intended as much for the Carter Administration and European leaders as for his audience of businessmen and scholars. "The accession of executive power [by these Communist parties]" would 1) be a massive change in European politics; 2) have basic consequences for the structure of the postwar world and for the Western alliance; and 3) alter "the prospects for security...
DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE (DMSO), a chemical byproduct of papermaking that purportedly reduces bruises and inflammation, eases pain and relieves ills from bursitis to cold sores. Doctors commonly prescribe DMSO in Australia, Canada and some European and South American countries, but it can be used legally in the U.S. only on animals...
...split may have played a role in persuading David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History and one of the world's foremost European economic historians, to switch from History to the Economics Department...
Field believes that the young relationship in the early '40s was uneasy because both writers were at awkward stages in their careers. Nabokov's European reputation had yet to transplant itself to America. Wilson the literary journalist was just becoming Wilson the critic and man of letters. Furthermore, says Field, Wilson often chose to play the brooding Russian, while Nabokov played the easygoing American. The following conversation is reported to have taken place in 1942 - Wilson: "Do you believe in God?" Nabokov: "Do you?" Wilson: "What a strange question!" According to Field, the friendship ended in 1954, when...