Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall and just beginning to gray, McNiff at thirty-five has spent more time in libraries than many a bent and wrinkled European scholar, and if he has not studied all the time, he has at least kept himself well occupied. Back in 1933, the year he graduated from Boston College with his A.B. in Philosophy, he began the battle of the books in Newton. Public Library. Things are usually uneventful for a small town librarian, but McNiff never gave them time to get that way. Not content to sit in a branch library and philosophize, he took courses...
...satellite states." You mean "murder"? Then why the soft word, the wiggle word, the euphemism? "Murder" is clear in meaning, one syllable and three letters more concise than this clumsy circumlocution which with ... a score or more of other obscure terms have oozed up from the quagmires of European political intrigue and diplomatic doubletalk...
While Congress bickered, Harry Truman had slipped away to Key West for a holiday. This week, as the House prepared to vote on interim aid, the President was back. With the bounce restored to his step, he buckled down to prepare his message to Congress on the long-range European Recovery Program...
...novels that did not suffer from paucity of style as well as poverty of theme was Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a funny and tragic little story of children in the West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories of the year were...
...cablegram to his brother, William S. Campbell '50, chairman of the Relief Committee at Harvard, Campbell, administrative director of the Home, emphasized the key position of the Leopoldskron organization, which is able to act as the middle man in handling gifts sent overseas from this country. The Seminar European Advisory Committee is prepared to reship all packages which are sent to them according to their needs, the cable said...