Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polish, Austrian, Chinese, and Greek students for this food. Facts show the tragic condition of University-attendants in these countries; on the whole they eat one-third of what an American college student consumes during the year. Next, what frame of mind are Americans seeking to instill in European students who are never too hungry to weight the bread before them alongside the future of their country or what they believe in? Is simple, vocal gratitude the sole aim of the effort? Does the American mentality ignore the psychology of charity so thoroughly that it would deem the American label...
Enough people felt otherwise about this, how ever, for him to be awarded a Rhodes scholarship. He prefaced his stay at Oxford by a year of Knocking around France, and reinforcing thereby his interest in modern European history. The subsequent life at Oxford was a wonderful experience. "I was thrown on my own to study as I wished. And the social side of it was pleasant-lots of good, easy going conversation." Professor Brinton's rate of absorption was patently prodigious-his Ph.D. thesis, "Political Ideas in the English Romantic Period," got a gratifying reception, and is still a much...
...divided among the Universities of Warsaw, Athens, Peking, and Vienna, schools where hunger and a forty percent tubercular rate compete for the lives of students. The remaining $4000 buys food for Harvard's own baby, a summer rest school at Salzburg, Austria, where 100 of the best European students will be taught by leading men from our own faculty...
...Irving Berlin was still a singing waiter, an unspoken law existed among musical-comedy producers that nobody should ever try anything that hadn't already been worked at least one, and preferably one hundred times. Audiences were confronted year after year, for instance, with elaborate opening scenes in European palaces, full of richly garbed extras extolling the beauty, glamour, and unparalleled grace of the as yet unseen princess. Finally, when the entire company was worked into a supreme ectasy of adulation, out waltzed the star, singing gaily and enticingly flitting among her admirers, while the audience gratefully cheered, thankful...
...Secretary (of State) Marshall's departure for Moscow we had a general discussion of the European problem which is involved in the approaching meeting...