Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since his return from Rio, President Truman had tried to make up his mind whether or not he should call a special session of Congress. There was increasing pressure on him to call one. Without some stopgap, immediate help, some European nations might not be able to hold out. But there was no telling what...
...first student to register at Berkeley last week queued up at 3 130 a.m., and was allowed in at 7:45. European History was jammed; so were most engineering, chemistry and physics courses. Those who had heard about a new course in World Affairs, with no exams, waited from one to three hours to sign up; only 1,000 of the 2,500 who applied could be accepted...
Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, a fun-loving, hard-working Hollywood writing-directing team (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend), came home from Europe conscious of one big difference between U.S. and European movies. To the New York Post's Archer Winsten they explained...
...have to smuggle mood into an American picture. Mood itself, American audiences will not swallow. You have to be extremely clever. You do it with a shoehorn. For instance, a European opens his picture with a shot of the clouds. Then another, very beautiful. Then a third. The audience accepts it as part of the mood...
Frederick was a European prince of the Enlightenment, and not, like Adolf Hitler, a psychopathic noncom. He paid noble homage to Voltaire until the crafty genius abused his friendship by promising to report confidentially to the French court on what Frederick was up to. Frederick patronized the arts, practiced philosophy, loved poetry and composed for the flute. Just as significant as any of these gifts, however, were his personal candor and his lack of principle; he fooled and defrauded others, but he willingly, if secretly, admitted the frauds. Frederick was secretive and an adept at dissimulation ("If I thought that...