Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first worked for the magazine as a stringer, when he was an undergraduate at Stanford University. Reared in Switzerland until age 6, when he and his family moved to San Francisco, Muller joined TIME in 1971 as a correspondent in Canada. He next served in Brussels as European economic correspondent and in Paris as bureau chief before coming to New York as a writer in 1981. He became senior editor of the World section and, last year, chief of correspondents and an assistant managing editor. Presiding over the much acclaimed 1985 special issue devoted to immigrants, Muller brought the personal...
Actually, the needling might have been more accurately directed at America's European allies. It is they, rather than the U.S., that are most uneasy at the turn of events. After years of publicly decrying the proliferation of nuclear weapons on their soil, some Europeans may be reminded of Oscar Wilde's dictum: "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." To the West's discomfort, Gorbachev is zestfully playing a role no previous Soviet leader has essayed: the man who keeps saying yes. The General Secretary first astonished NATO last month by accepting Reagan's zero...
Gorbachev replied by proposing what some Europeans called a "super-zero option." For once, TASS carried the most complete account of his talks with Shultz. In effect, Gorbachev said, We want to take warheads out of Europe, not put more in. So let's equalize once more at zero: we will get rid of all our European shorter-range missiles if the U.S. pledges not to bring any such weapons into the Continent. He implied this would be done within a year of Senate ratification of a treaty on INF (intermediate-range nuclear forces) weapons...
...governments of most of America's European allies do not at all think Gorbachev's direction is the way to go. They are terrified that Soviet cold-turkey proposals could, in the words of NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe, Bernard Rogers, make the Continent "safe for conventional war." Facing Soviet superiority in conventional arms, NATO has contemplated not just using nuclear weapons but using them first, to stop a Warsaw Pact invasion. If all the nukes were gone, the Soviets might be deterred from invading Europe only if they could be convinced that the U.S. would fire its intercontinental...
...puts a major, if easy, twist on history in Them: African pilgrims--not Europeans--colonized and settled this country, bringing over European slaves. But instead of letting this not-so-clever premise unfold with some dramatic grace or subtlety, Lee has a narrator explain the wider historical circumstances in deadening detail. Like the rest of the play, this opening lacks the imagination and care that its themes suggest and demand...