Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They do not understand why the U.S. contents itself with giving moral backing to the five-power western European military pact. Either America intends to stop Russia from dominating Western Europe, or she does not. If she does, she ought to give full and formal military backing to the five-nations pact at Brussels. She ought to make arrangements for standardization of equipment, for the maintenance of airfields, for the establishment of a joint staff and command...
There would also be discussions about European colonies in the New World (Guatemala, fresh from a tiff with Britain over Belize, wants them declared a menace) and about recognition of de facto governments (one de facto regime, Nicaragua's, will be represented at Bogota). But the chief talk will be about money...
Next month's Italian election will get what radiomen call an "unprecedented coverage" by U.S. radio. In Manhattan last week, Edward Roscoe Murrow, 39, famed wartime chief of CBS's European Bureau, was packing his bags for the trip. He could have included three bright new prizes*: 1) his first Alfred I. du Pont Award (for "aggressive, independent and meritorious" newsgathering); 2) his second Overseas Press Club Award (for the "best interpretation of foreign affairs by radio"); 3) his third National Headliners' Club medal (for his coverage of the British royal wedding...
Inevitably, Reporter Murrow began to get restless for a newsbeat. Six months ago, he returned to reporting. The public found that his voice had lost none of its persuasive ring. And he was happy to be back. This summer, European weather permitting, Reporter Murrow hopes to cover the U.S. presidential campaign. But he isn't counting on it: "You never can tell where or what the big news story is going to be. My horizon is never more than thirty days ahead...
There are no chords (in the Western sense) in Hovhaness' trance-like music. He hates chords. Says he: "It is a European sophistication ... to force melody to submit to the dictatorship of harmony." Hovhaness himself uses ancient Indian ragas, or what he calls "groups of associated notes" and tolas, groups of beats, rather than the conventional rhythms...