Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the popular clamor for a quick peace and an end to bickering, the sharper observers saw plainly that if the U.S. and Britain had not been frank and firm and patient with Russia in the Allied Control Council for Germany and on the Eastern European treaties, the chances of an enduring German settlement would be slimmer than they...
...seems unlikely) who would have the top roles? For the 1946-47 season the answer is plain: Traubel is signed up. There is no doubt that the Met finds it easier to work with the untemperamental Traubel-and the Met is always willing to let well enough alone. Because European opera houses have been shattered and their companies scattered, the Met has become, by a survival of the luckiest, perhaps the leading opera house of the world. It packs in 24,000 people a week, and an additional ten million listen to the ABC Saturday broadcasts...
...Metropolitan and the National Gallery among American museums. Its greatest prize is its collection of Chinese art, the largest and finest in the Occident, and its Japanese, Persian, and Indian collections are scarcely less impressive. The museum is also distinguished for Egyptian, Classical, and Gothic works, and for European painting, particularly Italian primitives, Turner and Blake watercolors, and French impressionists...
...Eleanor Roosevelt vigorously defended the right of European refugees to decide whether they wish to return to their home countries, as opposed to repeated Russian demands by Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, that all be forced to return...
...scholarships again a one-way street, but with the signs reversed. This year the Institute has brought nearly 1,000 foreign students to the U.S., sent only 65 U.S. students abroad. Reason: few U.S. students want to go to Latin American universities and Dr. Duggan opposed sending them to European universities (which are clamoring for them) until Europe's rebuilding has progressed further. So far, attempts to arrange exchanges with Russia have failed...