Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essence: in history, time is a function of space; whereas all Europe lives roughly in the 20th Century, in Peru the coast is 20th, the Indian highlands 16th, the Amazon basin still prehistoric. The main conclusion: European theories cannot be applied mechanically to America, as the Marxists vainly think...
...lead. How did the new stars appear to the worldwide audience? Part of the crucial answer could actually be found in the theater. American lives, loves, liberties and laughter were being exhibited everywhere on Europe's battered boards, from London's Globe to Rome's Quirino. European plays about Americans, and Europeans' reaction to the flood of imported U.S. plays, reflected-in the bizarre but revealing light of theatric truth-what other nations think Americans are like...
Somewhere in between the old and the new regimes wander the disillusioned intellectuals. They talk endlessly about European culture, Rousseau, God and Utopia -and then sadly reach for their revolvers and shoot themselves. Or they find themselves, as Arkady does, sucked in either by the commercials or the aristocrats, and bewailing the loss of their ideals. Among these lost ideals: the women of St. Petersburg, who fight with the savagery of harpies for marriage and security...
...more major production, coming the first week in May, is planned by the Dramatic Club for this term. A work by a European author will be performed, to balance the year's diet, which has been confined to American works thus far. The HDC Reading Theater presentations will complete the Club's schedule...
Drzewieski stressed the poor living conditions of European students in stating that at the University of Warsaw there are only enough beds for one out of every four students...