Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ranks of cold war captives who have crossed the Glienicker Bridge to freedom. The news that Shcharansky and several others would be swapped for a number of East bloc spies in Western custody leaked to Bild Zeitung by what it called "Moscow Kremlin circles" and confirmed last week by European officials, caused an instant sensation in the West...
Some Moscow watchers see the Shcharansky deal as a propaganda gesture aimed largely at Western Europe. It has long been Moscow's design to split the NATO alliance by persuading European voters that the Soviet Union is essentially reasonable. But other Kremlinologists take a more sanguine view of the Shcharansky swap. "It alerts us that Gorbachev means business," says Princeton University Political Scientist Stephen Cohen. "He wants to remove certain roadblocks to U.S.-Soviet relations." Whatever the Soviets' real agenda, the announced swap will at least free Shcharansky from the horrors of the gulag. In the cold world of superpower...
Their Valentine's gifts are not anonymous; they are not mysterious. They are anticipated, expected. These undergraduates are devoted and attached. Unlike the medieval European tradition where young men drew the names of women from a sealed box and were paired up only for one day in celebration of an ancient Roman feast, these couples are intending to be paired. For life...
...many students the variety of courses has not been attractive enough to balance erratic offerings. Two years ago the Academics Committee of the Undergraduate Council issued a report suggesting, among other things, a more limited number of bracketed courses, and a more consistent offering of European history courses...
...even with such great variety not all student needs are or can be accomodated. If we skim through the course catalog we will not find much on, for example, modern history of the countries of the European periphery, such as Italy, Greece, or the Scandinavian countries. Moreover, the development of new fields within the discipline over the past three decades, notably social history and the history of women, has made complete coverage a Promethean task. Offerings from visiting professors are an insufficient solution. There is a point, then, in trying to be diverse, but diversity does not benefit students...