Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME publishes below extracts from three widely different reports from recent visitors to Europe. TIME & LIFE'S Winthrop Sargeant, who is primarily a cultural reporter, looked for signs of life in the arts, and found some. Paul Hutchinson, managing editor of the Christian Century (whose full report is published...
My overall impression of Europe was, of course, the expected one of a tired, devastated and morally rather bewildered place. There were, however, many exceptions to this prevailing impression, and some of them, I think, may constitute political, economic or cultural straws in the wind. Among these were the enormous...
Opera, Italian style, is flourishing in all its prewar luxuriance-a little haphazard by German standards but vocally superb. While in Rome I witnessed an outdoor performance of Aïda with nearly a thousand people in the cast of characters, done on a lavish scale that made Radio City...
* Pronounced Eek-o-sock or Eck-o-sock, optionally, and not to be confused with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). UNESCO is a semi-autonomous U.N. body which will probably have head quarters in Paris.
Certain well-established and widely-supported college activities are exceptions to the rule. Compared with organizations at other colleges, smaller group-projects at Harvard do not reach anywhere near the same numbers of students, and other valuable outlets such as forums and cultural activities are deemphasized to the extent of...