Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While in Paris on his European sabbatical, President Derek C. Bok has a chance encounter with the former Prime Minister of Iran, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. Bani-Sadr recognizes the world renowned educator and, aware of Bok's efforts to make Harvard a force for progress in education throughout the world, the Iranian emigre offers Bok an opportunity to strike a blow for enlightenment and freedom on three continents. The exile tells Bok of the heroic efforts of a group of moderate Iranian educators who are struggling to give students a liberal arts education despite the mullahs' decision to eliminate funding...
...tradition, a European heads the IMF and the president of the sister World Bank is an American. Generally, West European governments quietly agree on a candidate, and the IMF executive board, which represents the 151 member nations, approves the choice by acclamation. This time, though, two rivals -- Camdessus and Dutch Finance Minister H. Onno Ruding -- lobbied for the job. Ruding hit the campaign trail in an especially unbankerly fashion, creating a stir at an IMF meeting in Washington this fall by canvassing for votes. Divided on the choice between Camdessus and Ruding, the European governments left the decision...
...later this season, calls for Chamberlain to seduce such beauties as Faye Dunaway and Sylvia Kristel (Emmannuelle). Nice work if you can cut it, but Casanova may have had an easier time of it. Chamberlain, 51, has to bed all his conquests twice. "We have the classic American and European dichotomy," he reports. "For the American version the women are covered up, and then when we switch to the European version, blouses come ripping off and there is considerably more flesh." Poor Richard...
...reared in two Nebraska towns, West Point and Battle Creek. He was a member of the staunchly conservative Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod, which employed his father as an elementary school principal. He attended Synod schools from first grade through Concordia Seminary near St. Louis. The training was so European oriented, says Marty, that "I was 26 years old before I cracked a book in the field to which I have devoted my career," American religion...
Eisenstaedt's technique was adopted from the pioneering candid camera work of Erich Salomon. In the late 1920s, Salomon electrified photojournalism with his available-light pictures of European diplomats in unposed situations -- stuffed shirts in unbuttoned moments. Eisenstaedt applied Salomon's methods to less official surroundings, in ballrooms, at the opera, or among strollers at St. Moritz. His strengths were the chief strengths of photography generally: not the ceremonial but the serendipitous, not oratory but anecdote. He was the kind of photographer who could become so entranced by the sideline * doings at a royal wedding that he would forget...