Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dream environment conjured up by Sant'Elia: all girders and concrete cliffs, with glass elevators zipping up the exterior walls. Its painting would try to encompass not just sight but noise, heat and smell; above all, it would depict movement. To fix this industrial mode in Italian (and European) culture, the pastoral mode had to be slaughtered. "Kill the moonlight!" one futurist manifesto exclaimed. Whatever lingered from the 1890s -- symbolism, impressionism, the cults of nuance and nostalgia, of the Arcadian countryside or the introverted personality -- was futurism's enemy...
...resurgence of capitalism is rewriting the world's political lexicons. Social Democratic leaders across Western Europe are increasingly pro-business. Says Herbert Giersch, director of the Institute of World Economics at the University of Kiel, West Germany: "The European Commission, even under a socialist president, is pushing toward a decontrol of the capital market, a breakdown of the airline cartel and reform of agriculture policy...
Today, however, the European Communist Parties are almost all in retreat after suffering disastrous setbacks at the polls. Even the Italian Communist Party, still the world's largest nonruling Communist Party, has watched its membership slide from a high of 2 million in the mid-1970s to 1.65 million. . More telling, Bologna is the only large city that still has a Communist mayor. In 1976 there were five, including Rome and Naples. The chances of a party resurgence seem slim under the current leadership of Alessandro Natta, who is bland and unforceful...
TELEVISION. After a numbing 110 hours of often fervid debate, the Senate passed a bill to sell the country's oldest and biggest state-owned television network, TF1. If the National Assembly approves, France will become the first European country to privatize a public TV network. The measure, charged Communist Senator Charles Lederman, is "the same as if we auctioned off Versailles, the Louvre and the Comedie Francaise." Culture and Communications Minister Francois Leotard vehemently disagreed. "TF1 is badly run," he said. "It does not compete with foreign programs and is absolutely incapable of exporting its own productions...
...elaborate conference was designed to "train, equip and encourage" others who, like Graham, travel to spread the Christian message. North Americans and Europeans provided the majority of the instruction but cheerfully performed the routine chores as well, ushering and operating the weapon scanners that are now fixtures at large European gatherings. How-to workshops offered tips on everything from prison projects to street preaching to the use of drama, with continual emphasis upon methods that would be practical, efficient and inexpensive...