Word: continentality
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But Fairbank did not always have this sense of mission. His stumbling onto the continent was in fact pure chance, a sort of accident of history. During lunch one day at the Signet, Fairbank, the Harvard undergrad studying English trade history, happened to hear Sir Charles Webster, the British historian...
South Korea sees itself as militarily strong, but facing an extreme hazard. Every Korean leader seems to have a map in his mind and a geographic lecture on his lips: the country is the tip of a small peninsula at the edge of the Asian continent. It faces not only...
Turgenev began his career as a narrative poet. He was later to describe his verse as "dirty tepid water." But it served to attract influential critics, and propelled him to local prominence. Like many in his privileged caste, Ivan furthered his education in Western Europe. On the Continent, the perpetual...
Tight as a Tick. Arriving in London aboard Air Force One with an entourage that included more than 50 Secret Service agents, Carter was grandly welcomed by Prime Minister James Callaghan "on behalf of the whole Continent." The President responded warmly by emphasizing "the special and very precious relationship" between...
Before long, he creates a government, complete with constitution and courts. He declares independence from Spain and claim to the vast land he and his group are dreamily yet viciously floating through, starving as the Indians grow bolder. In the end, no one is left but Aguirre, who is last...