Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a guinea pig, of course, would have to have an air of freshman-like innocence and a convincingly slight knowledge of nineteenth-century European history, so I set to work at once. The letter which Cramer had sent to a College club was necessarily vague, so the first stop was to phone the number on the letterhead for further information...
...like to find out about, UN, getting some tutoring in a European history course I'm taking," I said...
Since there are about half a dogen European history courses being given here this term, this seemed little less than paychie...
This first book is the impressive result of a bold, if not wholly successful, effort to write the Great American Novel. It is also the latest and plainest sign that native American and recent European traditions of art and thought can flow together and that this cultural Mississippi, though full of snags and shallows, may be one of the brightest things moving in the world. Raintree County is a historical novel of Indiana by an Indiana boy; it is also a philosophical novel (a rare thing in U.S. fiction), and a studied work of art that is striking enough...
Great Mystic Purpose. Many readers are likely to resent Author St. John's fervent acceptance of New Yugoslavia. They will also resent his stunning platitudes (e.g., "In European countries where there is wild inflation the value of the native currency is constantly dropping") and his soap-opera similes ("When the sun came up, the Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers...