Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many brokers and banks bought stocks on their own as a gesture of confidence, and on Wednesday old John D. Rockefeller, the personification of American capitalism, gave his reassurance to the nation's investors. Said he: "In the 90 years of my life, depressions have come and gone. Prosperity has always returned, and will come again. Believing that the fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have been purchasing sound common stocks for some days...
Some weeks ago, during the very particular and graceful lull of an English Sunday afternoon, two American travelers stopped by a pub in the village of Blandford, Dorset. The air was thick with Player's smoke and jollity, the sound of gentle joking, the slide and click of coins across the worn wood of the bar, and the easygoing strains of the new Eagles album...
Released just days before, The Long Run, an adept and insinuating work by the regents of California pop, had already crossed the ocean, penetrated cultural barriers where some resistance might have been anticipated, and found a snug home for itself. Besides being a reminder of the international power of American pop music, hearing The Long Run in Blandford helped to take the Eagles out of cultural context. It lifted them from the category of stainless-steel Los Angeles pop, in which they are usually confined on their home turf, and let their music stand free of preconceptions. It sounded good...
...vital respect, this year's winning roster was similar to those of previous years: it had, overall, a distinctly American cast. Continuing their domination of the Nobel science prizes, Americans took two out of three of the physics awards, and one each of the twin medicine, chemistry and economics honors...
...correct, bland surfaces. The result is a pleasant, pretty entertainment. One suspects that this film is outside its natural element on a theatrical screen, that its mod est virtues would shine to better advantage on PBS. If we had a properly functioning public broadcasting system in the country, American classics like The Europeans might be produced with funds and talent in profusion...