Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUICK AND THE DEAD, by Thomas Wiseman. In this skilled, unsettling novel, a European half-Jew, haunted by decidedly unorthodox memories of a youthful acquaintance who turned Nazi, probes the past to learn why, even in death, this adversary-friend still dominates his life...
With regard to the black people, or vis a vis the history of manufacturing in America, or the collection of American antiques, or an interest in American art, one might feel a dillettante, or boorish. Listen to any knowledgeable person--especially a European--and he will tell you to study European painting, the fate of the Jews, Florentine curios, etc., if you would find your heritage...
...freed, by and large, from 18th century shackles of thought and polity, wandered into a new continent and found some new spiritual and social constricts. The shackles that we have acquired, indeed, are twentieth century ones that we have bred quite apart from Europe, and to which, ironically, European philosophers have addressed themselves in the twentieth century...
...Political counselor of the U.S. Embassy at Bonn and in 1962 became Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. He was assigned as Ambassador to The Hague...
...Tyler began his diplomatic career as Public Affairs Officer for the American Embassy in Paris. He also served there as Deputy Director and later Director of the Office of Western European Affairs...