Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magna Carta. So there was considerable irony in the fact that an international court, born out of the Holocaust to prevent the rise of another Nazi Germany, solemnly declared last week that Great Britain had failed a basic test of human rights. Free expression, ruled the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights, had been denied by a longstanding English law that stifled the press and allowed a national scandal to go virtually unreported for a decade...
...England, that is. In 1974 the Sunday Times took its case to the 25-year-old European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg. When the commission decided the Sunday Times case was worth hearing a year later, the English government and the courts began backing down. By then, it would have been absurd not to. Almost all the Thalidomide litigation was settled, leaving little to be prejudiced by the press. The dam finally broke: in 1976, the Sunday Times was allowed to print for the first time a story that explicitly discussed Distillers' negligence. And in 1977, the commission...
Britain, in fact, is the commission's best client. In the past three years Strasbourg has received 398 complaints against the British government, more than against any other country. Unlike many other European countries, England does not recognize the European human rights convention as national law. Its own constitution is largely unwritten; there is no bill of rights set above the power of Parliament. That makes it more difficult to persuade a British court that the government has trespassed on individual rights. And it helps explain why so many Britons turn to Strasbourg for redress...
Adopting a sprightly British accent and a no-nonsense manner, this handsome actress could cause any man to swoon, regardless of age, rank or marital status. Her feistiness meshes well with Duvall's homey gruffness: they're the Hepburn and Tracy of the European Theater...
...identical versions. Avec bras for U.S. television, a CBS special to be aired May 20. But then, performing before a sophisticated audience at the Lido that included Monaco's Princess Caroline and le Tout-Paris, the chorus danced the same routines sans bras for a later broadcast on European television. Vive les différences...