Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realize that with the power came chastening responsibilities. They had inherited the stabilizing role-but not the territory-of the British Empire. Furthermore, the collapse of Europe's once great power made it no longer feasible to look to that continent as the guardian of a civilization called European, or Western; the U.S. had become the heir of Athens and Rome simply because it was the only nation able to carry out the function of a trustee. In a trustee, good will and generosity are not enough; he must also exercise with requisite vigor the authority of his office...
...forces called history? History to a reindeer is the rising and the setting sun, begetting and dying, the north-and southward seasonal flight of birds. How could the two deer know that if a man named Hitler had never been born, if there had never occurred that crisis of European civilization one of whose phases is called Naziism, if the Germans had never invaded Norway, if the British had not come to help, they would still be nuzzlers of Lapland lichens in subarctic Norway, instead of the week's most curious travelers...
...prepared to engage Russia in the Battle for Germany (at Moscow in March). But last week the Battle for France, also an important sector of the Battle for Europe, was well on the way to being lost. Arthur Koestler, brilliant novelist (Darkness at Noon) and acute observer of European affairs, reported (in the N.Y. Times Sunday magazine) what he had just seen in France. His report read like an obituary of Europe's hopes...
Their dance floor recently moved from the First Congressional Church in Cambridge to the gymnasium of Sargent College, the group performs European figures and American squares under the direction of E. Eddy Nadel, who dresses in a colorful Polish costume...
Curfew at 10. Like their European counterparts, the U.S. hostels hug secondary roads and avoid large cities, vary from deluxe cabins to converted barns. Hikers and bikers travel light, hop from one overnight spot to the next...