Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia-to confirm everything the Soviet Government has been telling the Russian people. How would it seem in Hiroshima or Nagasaki to know that Americans make cakes of angel-food puffs in the image of that terrible diabolical thing. . . . Try to imagine yourself for a moment a continental European, wondering, brooding, asking yourself a hundred times a day, will America lead us? ... Then imagine yourself being shown this picture. If I had the authority of a priest of the Middle Ages I would call down the wrath of God upon such an obscenity. I would damn to hell these . . . traitors...
Theologian Brunner has high hope that the "awakening" in the U.S. will check an overemphasis on social-service Christianity that he opposes and deplores. His warning: "Americans developed the social side of Christianity much further than has the European church; but in the process you have been losing, to a high degree, substantial preaching. It would be the end if this went...
...Sumatra, Java, Batavia-areas wrested from the Dutch by Napoleon and, in turn, taken from the French by the British Navy, Army, and young Raffles. When, after six years of labor, the young clerk thought he had attained his principal ambition by being made Lieutenant-Governor of Java, European politics smashed his dreams. Under terms laid down by the Congress of Vienna, Britain returned Java to the Dutch, and Governor Raffles' dreams of a British fortress in Indonesia collapsed...
From the University faculty, Dr. Leon Brillouin, atomic physicist and visiting lecturer, and Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy, will explain the purposes of the organization and how it can cement relations between Europe and the rest of the world. Joining Brillouin on the European problems in particular will be Dr. Karl Deutsch of M.I.T...
...decide upon the second course. Through Joseph's eyes, Koestler gives the reader a vivid impression of a typical Marxist agricultural commune, and the immense difficulties involved in buying desert and turning it into a self-sustaining home are presented in detail. Joseph contrasts the high-strung, intellectual European Jew with the ". . . blond, freckled, broad-featured, heavy-boned farmers' sons, peasant lads . . . and slightly dull,"--the new Jewish strain developing in Palestine...