Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Habermas-who Seyla Benhabib, chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, called "post-war Europe's most distinguished political and social thinker"-will visit Harvard on Oct. 28. Habermas will participate in a seminar discussion in social studies and a workshop seminar at the Center for European Studies...
During his visit, Habermas will also participate in a seminar entitled, "Dilemmas of European Leadership," a by-invitation-only event on citizenship and European integration...
...Swedish friend remarked to me that she found American college students to be more emotionally dependent on their parents than their European counterparts. However, going off to college is akin to a rite of passage in American culture, marking the beginning of a transformation from a dependent child to an independent one and rapidly thereafter to an adult...
...doubtful whether Doktor Kosmos has actually taken any Hippocratic Oath, but the lovably cankersored fellow (if he's the cover man) is no stranger to political commentary. With a European openness and security about the human body, the Doktor pokes fun in "Porno-Person" at the American tendency toward absolute public condemnation of purveyors of porn. As the song's narrator, the "porno-person" tells of "eating porno-food/driving porno car" and ultimately, in the final incongruous shocker, being "body without soul." Deep down, says the Doktor, these porno-people must be just like all of us. Less subtle...
...photographers blame their European counterparts for upping the ante. "They are ruthless," says Scott Downie, the owner of Celebrity Photo, an agency that covers official show-biz events. "Those who came here in the '80s laughed at us as babies: 'You don't know how to get a good photo. We're here to get them in a private moment, not in diamonds at an event.'" Yet every paparazzo is familiar with the pressures. "It's a collective hysteria," says Mark Saunders, who has covered Diana for the past five years. "It's the adrenaline flowing and that desperate need...