Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news from Norway that the Nobel Peace Prize had been given to a Russian for the first time in the 74-year history of the award was broadcast to the Soviet Union last week by U.S. and West European short-wave radio. For Winner Andrei Sakharov, 54, the prize climaxed a long and often lonely struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union. Dressed in a baggy gray suit and ill-fitting shirt, he talked with newsmen in his gloomy two-room apartment near the Kremlin. "I hope this will help political prisoners," he said. The phone rang constantly with...
Sihanouk plans to go slowly. By year's end, he expects to have diplomatic relations with China, North Viet Nam, South Viet Nam and North Korea. Next, Algeria and Cuba. "After two years we shall be able to welcome the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries, our friends of the 22nd hour. They did not support us during the war, they were with Lon Nol and you. Then we shall give facilities to France, a friend of the 23rd hour and then the United States will be our friend of the 25th hour. In just a few years...
...Europe last week, Schlesinger met with General Alexander Haig, commander of NATO forces-and, ironically, Kissinger's onetime closest aide-who insisted that the removal of the missiles would create a serious hole in NATO's counterstrike firepower against a Soviet assault. Haig was backed by U.S. European allies...
...been greater abstract artists than Kupka, but none so unmistakably Slavic. Later, when Kupka's eminence as a pioneer of abstract art was recognized-his first completely abstract pictures were done around 1910-11-the French tried to claim him as a true Parisian in whom the Central European heritage was aesthetically unimportant...
Code of Shapes. This kind of nonsense only served to confuse Kupka's image more, and so for most people he remains the least known of all the significant figures in early European modern ism. A full-dress retrospective was needed. Now it has come: 190 paintings, drawings and studies, opening this week at New York's Guggenheim Museum...