Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hence the good old summertime finds seersuckered College boys making daytime rushes for the Nantasket Beach excursion veasel, and night-time cultural promenades around the Esplanade. Some fans of nocturnal sedentary sport hasten to Braves Field and Fenway Park. Others like to take if lying down along Memorial Drive.
Stone was summoned to the NBC throne room in Manhattan and told that the show was "great." But the network, afraid to take on a program that was so pointedly "cultural," advised the young lawyer to move the show over to WGY, Schenectady, and experiment with it for a while...
Emerging relatively unscathed from a war that shattered most of the Continent, Scandinavia today is heir to the intellectual and cultural leadership of Europe that has been held for many years by France and Germany, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, states in a recent issue of the Aftenpostens Chronicle...
He pointed out in an interview Tuesday that there is little chance that France or Germany will over regain their prewar cultural and intellectual dominance in Europe. The German and French tradition of fine art, literature, education, and architecture, is broken, possibly irreparably.
He explained, however, that Segndin avia is not only physically able to take the lead in education, art, painting, and music in Europe, but that the "inherited traditions of free thinking" of its universities qualify it to supplant France and Germany as the cultural center.