Word: americanophilia
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...among younger people "who enjoy American products without a sense of guilt and without a sense of superiority." Emphatic agreement came from Historian Marcus Cunliffe of Manchester University, who reported that the younger intellectuals "if anything, are almost too pro-American: many younger English people have a sort of Americanophilia because they have established in their own minds the contrast between our allegedly soporific, boring, class-ridden culture and this crackling culture across the Atlantic." American jazz, painting, architecture, and highbrow paperbacks all suggest to young British intellectuals that the U.S. is "the country one must go to in order...
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