Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Forbath, Time-Life Eastern European Bureau Chief recently returned from Czechoslovakia, said last night that the situation in Chicago during the convention seemed more dangerous than that in Prague during the invasion...
...snorts, "I'd have him shot for dereliction of duty." Ojukwu, for whom Steiner has immense admiration, has authorized the Fourth to be expanded to two brigades, or 20 strike forces of 360 men each. The new men are being armed with weapons apparently bought with private European credits and flowing into Biafra from neighboring Gabon and the Portuguese island of São Tomé. Up to as much as 40 tons are said to be arriving every night-more than ever before...
...futuristic version of Dumas fils' classic, and gossip columnists made the most of every rumor about her life and hard times with ex-husband, Rhadamés Trujillo. The trigger-tempered playboy son of the late Dominican dictator had held her a virtual prisoner of love at his European estates for almost five years-or so the stories went. Then the romantic legend began to falter, as Danièle missed her cue and told reporters: "It's true that my husband wanted me to live on his estates in France and Spain, but it was not against...
...gifted amateurs. In 1880, Hofstadter points out, there were exactly eleven professors of American history in all U.S. colleges. They viewed the early Republic as an ideal state from which America had subsequently declined. For them the new democratic institutions established between 1776 and 1787 had been born of European theory, and flourished in America only with the help of Divine Providence. The new, progressive historians, aware of Marx and Darwin and stirred by the belief that history must be both dynamic and toughly realistic, read American history in radically different ways...
Free Land and Hardship. As Turner grasped it, American democracy was neither a perfected political boon granted to the Founding Fathers by a Protestant Providence nor an inheritance from European political theorists, but something else again. It was a unique, home-grown institution shaped on the American frontier. Free land, Turner argued, made Americans free and generous. Frontier hardship made them self-reliant and individualistic. Frontier challenges made them willing to cooperate democratically with one another. The absence of the trappings of privilege made them egalitarian...