Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...various museums, Mercer says, she talked to curators, took pictures and studied the tiles' effect on European tilemaking. She emphasizes that "seeing everything" was very important to her work...
...push, and the U.S. looked for ways to exert counterpressure. The Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957 was a vow to use American military force against Communist aggression in the Middle East. After Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, U.S. policymakers dusted off the 136-year-old Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. (The original version, appropriately, had been occasioned in part by concern over czarist claims on territory along the Pacific coast...
...internal affair? Even in World War II, the combatants shunned chemical weapons, so reluctant were they to invite retaliation in kind. Yet until now, international reaction has been muted about Iraq's apparent crime. Last week ten nations, including the U.S., Japan and most West European countries, finally called on the U.N. to send a team of experts to Iraq to investigate the Kurdish charges. Three other countries, among them the Soviet Union, lent their support to the effort after the Reagan Administration leaked word that the U.S. had intercepted Iraqi military communications confirming that lethal gas had been used...
...beard and the checkered kaffiyeh headdress was familiar. The manner in which he smilingly addressed Jews around the world -- with their traditional New Year's greeting, shanah tovah -- was not. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, who earlier had spoken to a meeting of 165 socialist deputies to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last week, was clearly determined to make a good impression...
...what exactly does this facelift mean for the Kennedy School? Does the school plan to concentrate all its interests in the field of diplomacy and international relations? Is it aiming to become the new stomping ground for European and Third World bureaucracies? Will it now boast proudly of the Cambridge-Cairo connection in the same way that once it heralded the Boston-Washington link...