Word: barzini
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...less cowed by the Soviet Union at the same time as it evolves into a more unified community. Never again will Washington be able to take Western Europe and its allegiance for granted. "We have grown up and have stronger muscles," says Italian journalist Ludina Barzini. "It's going to be difficult for America to understand that it is not the only rich Western power anymore...
DIED. Luigi Barzini, 75, Italian journalist, author and politician; of lung cancer; in Rome. The urbane, elegant Barzini was best known for The Italians (1964) and The Europeans (1983), which solidified his reputation as a self-styled interpreter of America for Italians and Italy for Americans...
...Europe: cradle of culture and liberty, land of a hundred dialects, a thousand wines, 200 million opinions. Luigi Barzini, veteran journalist and author of a 1964 bestseller about his own tribe, The Italians, looks upon the Continent's rich diversity of tradition and thought-and despairs...
According to Barzini's saline account, one of Britain's most potent gifts to Europe was the black suit, a Continental uniform during the 19th century. This austere garment symbolized the qualities of sobriety, decency and steadiness that, along with those prodigious coal mines, allowed Britain to dominate the world for decades. The dark myth of British superiority persisted long after the country's decline, and led Britain in the 1950s to a disastrous delay in condescending to join the Common Market...
...Barzini observes, "nobody wears black unless he has to, and the empire has gone the ways of Nineveh and Tyre, its domination of the world is over, the awesome fleet and the tentacular intelligence service are but memories, and the sagacity of its statesmen almost (but not entirely) vanished." Nevertheless, says Barzini, the Britons realize their limitations. Helas, the French do not. They insist upon being treated as Europe's grandest military, economic, cultural and gustatory power. In fact, he notes, "foreigners have to remind themselves they are not dealing with a country that really exists, a country many...