Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elda, and the generations of European women she represents, created a powerful personal creed. She was an avid healer, a caring, soothing presence in the face of poverty and a demeaning social position. And it is her experience--the experience of the nurturing, intelligent and misunderstood woman--which Sorceress chronicles eloquently...
...short run, a slightly stronger dollar could be helpful all around. European governments have wanted to push up their interest rates to contain inflation but have not been able to do so until now because that would have made their currencies too strong against the shaky dollar. In the U.S., the Reagan Administration and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seem to agree that the mildly stronger dollar would help keep inflation in check by making imports cheaper...
...author! Speaker Jim Wright's nemesis Newt Gingrich has an ethical problem of his own. Democrat David Worley, hoping to win Gingrich's Georgia congressional seat, totes a blank book to campaign stops. The title: What I Did on My Summer Vacation, by Newt Gingrich. It refers to the European trip Gingrich and his family took to do "research," using a $13,000 advance for a book he never wrote...
...Latin market is our bread and butter, and we can't ignore them," says Raul Alfonso of Hansel y Raul, a straight-ahead salsa band that is trying to broaden its appeal with an upcoming record in English. But pop music has always been an indiscriminate buccaneer, hijacking European, American and African treasure alike, mutating it and selling it around the world. Now it may be the Hispanics' turn. In the global village called the U.S., Latin pop's opportunity is as equal as anybody...
...that people create one another when they meet. In the music of Latin America you will hear the litany of bloodlines: the African drum, the German accordion, the cry from the minaret. The U.S. stands as the opposing New World experiment. In North America the Indian and the European stood separate. Whereas Latin America was formed by a Catholic dream of one world, of meltdown conversion, the U.S. was shaped by Protestant individualism. America has believed its national strength derives from separateness, from diversity. The glamour of the U.S. is the Easter promise: you can be born again in your...