Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Costa Rica was the country I least expected to become a pirate's sanctuary. Costa Ricans have always prided themselves on calling their country "the Switzerland of Latin America" because of their government's political integrity...
...Busch-Reisinger continues its show on the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler for a few days more. Hodler, although respected widely in Switzerland and Germany during his lifetime has been little appreciated here, and on previous stops in New York and Berkeley the show gained attention for Holder as a major new point of perspective in viewing early modernist art. The sketches are the most interesting thing in the show, and most of the larger works appear stiff and stilted by comparison. The landscapes are significant for prefiguring German Expressionist works...
...Even though Switzerland has a reputation as a bastion of democracy, it seemed not entirely surprising that the country should have laws restricting Jesuits. After all, Geneva was once the home of Protestant Reformer John Calvin's stern theocracy, and the Jesuits (TIME, April 23) became a sort of spiritual Marine Corps to spearhead the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation...
...slim majority of voters, most of them Catholics, who only recently have edged out Protestants as the country's largest religious group. Before the referendum, anti-Jesuit campaigners marched through Zurich streets calling Jesuits "lackeys of fascism." Others voiced an outdated fear that Jesuits would seek to make Switzerland a Catholic state. Actually, the Jesuits have been working quietly in Switzerland for years with tacit government approval. The repeal of the old laws will mainly mean an opportunity to operate their own parishes, to teach in universities or perhaps open an experimental religious community...
...conservatory will be in Switzerland, but not for a while. Leandro's parents (Mother Dora is a Swiss-born interior decorator) prefer to keep him in the Fuengirola elementary school (where his passion is arithmetic), and limit his concertizing to six weeks a year. The elder Aconchas think the boy needs that much exposure to obtain, says Roberto, "the psychological advantage of being used to an audience." Above all, they want to avoid exhibiting Leandro as a public curiosity. But, says Roberto, "he enjoys playing so much that he regards the concerts as a sort of holiday treat...