Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European Photo Secession and the Beginning of Modernism: By Janet E. Buerger. Gilman Room, Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard...
Calvino's spare narrative seems to cry out for allegorical explanations. Mr. Palomar could represent the travail of Western empiricism, in which every new discovery adds to the inexplicable. Or he might represent the last gasp of a class (European, intellectual, well-to-do) that is being smothered by the rise of the masses. None of the possible interpretations seems as interesting as the novel's deceptively plain but beguiling language. The wise reader of Mr. Palomar might best adopt a strategy that the hero formulates but fails to follow: "Perhaps the first rule I must impose on myself...
...funny thing happened on the way to Halley's comet last week. As an armada of Soviet, Japanese and European space probes hurtled through the cosmos toward their heralded meetings with the fabled comet next March, they were upstaged by a modest and almost archaic Ameri can spacecraft. The International Cometary Explorer whipped through the tail of an obscure apparition called Giacobini-Zinner, thereby becoming the first man-made object to encounter a comet...
...pending on Capitol Hill. The President, a longtime advocate of free trade, had first signaled a shift in his radio message on Sept. 7. He threatened retaliatory measures against four U.S. trading partners that discriminate against some American products, including tobacco goods in Japan and canned fruit in the European Community. It was the first time Reagan had issued such warnings without being asked to do so by a U.S. industry. The President stressed that there was still time to resolve the disputes through negotiations. But he warned, "Our trading partners should not doubt our determination to see international trade...
...early last week imposed by Executive Order a series of sanctions against South Africa that went a long way toward preempting a stronger sanctions bill already passed by the House of Representatives and pending in the Senate. At the same time, Canada and the members of the ten-nation European Community, with the notable exception of Britain, announced sanctions of their...