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...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...
Indeed, the speed of the assembly line at Crewe would give Henry Ford ulcers: one Silver Spirit is finished in three months. There is the matter of eleven full hides from Scandinavian steers "kept virtually free from pests and barbed wire," according to the company, for the hand-sewn upholstery. Or the Lombard walnut selected in Milan each year by Rolls experts to assure that each dashboard's unique pattern can be repaired from the same slice of the same tree. Or the famed flying-lady hood ornament, officially "the Spirit of Ecstasy," made by a 4,000-year...
Mongrel New York, always a port of entry and always a slightly hysterical place, is now becoming even more eclectic, more jazzed up and redolent. Manhattan has a Ukrainian neighborhood that overlaps Polish and Puerto Rican sections, Brooklyn a Lebanese quarter just north of formerly Scandinavian, now Hispanic, Sunset Park. In the Balkanized Astoria neighborhood -- one part of one borough -- there are some 5,000 Croatians from Yugoslavia; 1,800 Colombians; 6,200 immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. In the Flushing section of Queens, a few miles east, there are 38,000 Koreans. Before he explored...
DIED. Tapio Wirkkala, 69, Finland's foremost designer in glass, ceramics, wood and metal, and a pioneer of the elegant, functional Scandinavian look; of a heart attack; in Esbo, Finland. Combining a hands-on knowledge of industrial production techniques, a sculptor's sensibility and a craftsman's intimate familiarity with his media, he was, in the view of many critics, the pre- eminent modern maker of such objects as vases, cutlery and glassware (including the distinctive frosted Finlandia vodka bottle...
...another leadership crisis. In addition, there is domestic business to attend to: the Central Committee is reportedly eager to schedule the 27th Party Congress for some time later this year, a weighty occasion that would demand a high public profile on the part of the leadership. But as a Scandinavian diplomat notes, "they cannot prepare such an important event without knowing who the General Secretary of the party will...