Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between the principles and the potential on the one hand and the reality on the other is still frighteningly wide, even within America. Americans of non-European descent are still having to struggle to achieve for themselves their full rights as American citizens, equal with all others. Extreme poverty, and even hunger, exist among a sizable minority of American people. There appears to be almost a breakdown of many of the public and communal services which are vital to civilized life and in respect of which we would expect America to be an example to the rest of struggling humanity...
...even the French can occasionally find sex of less compelling interest than water. Players briefly fled the British Open when brushfires broke out at the Royal Birkdale Golf Course. In Switzerland, thousands of fish were dying, officials said, because of oxygen depletion in their normal swimming grounds. Hordes of European citizens knew what the fish were going through: not only had the temperature got out of hand, but some British officials were worried about the increase of ozone levels in the air over London and other cities...
...done it? Partly -and paradoxically-by going through a recession that, according to some measures, was the worst in any industrialized nation. Switzerland's real output of goods and services last year dropped 7%,* compared with declines of 2% in the U.S. and 2.5% in the nine-nation European Community. This year real gross national product is expected to rise about 2% in Switzerland, v. 6% or more in the U.S., West Germany and France. Bankruptcies have increased, and some of the country's largest companies, including Alusuisse (aluminum) and Société Suisse pour...
...twisting, back-somersaulting dismount from the uneven parallel bars that one U.S. gymnast has a forthright word for: "Madness." Her derring-do, coupled with unusual stability in such difficult and dangerous moves as three back handsprings in a row on the beam, won her last year's European championship. (Korbut did not compete; Turishcheva was injured.) Comaneci has been criticized for being too serious while going through her routines. She responds: "I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have finished...
George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess -that wondrous mix of jazz, blues, gospel, Broadway and European romanticism-is a treasure that has been hoarded too long. Productions have been rare over the past two decades, and not all that frequent during Porgy's 41 years of life. Now there is a new version that is really worth seeing and hearing. Surprisingly, at least to those unattuned to the activities of General Director David Gockley, it comes from the Houston Grand Opera, where the show last week completed an eight-day run. With former American Ballet Theater President Sherwin...