Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"In cultural development the U.S. is besieged by contrasts. There a few schools organized by American millionaires are luxuriously equipped and are rich in all kinds of equipment. In contrast, the schools for the masses are poor and frequently in one room with one teacher there are three classes.
Britain's paper-hungry publishers had few magazines of their own to sell. Raising a hue & cry about "cultural invasion" by U.S. magazines, they had persuaded the Government to limit U.S. imports. Now they had invasion jitters over a new menace: they had kept out the good only to...
To piece out Britons' starvation diet of reading matter, the Board of Trade had agreed to let in magazines from within the Empire. Through that breach in the cultural ramparts, a trashy flood poured in from Canada. Bookstalls unloaded over 6,000,000 comics, westerns, detectives and sex pulps...
Scientific Succession. Every culture in the past, says Northrop, has had a philosophical basis (a theory of the nature of man and what is good for him). Setting out to prove it in 435 pages of closely reasoned analyses of the histories of Mexico, the U.S., Britain, Germany, Russia and...
Passed by the Senate last April, the bill passed the House last week in ten minutes and with an absolute minimum of debate. Yet in scope it is the most comprehensive program of education and cultural relations ever embarked upon by the United States, or any other country in the...