Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notes sent last week to Soviet Russia and two of its European satellites it warned that it was tired of Communist monkey business with the peace of Europe and that its patience would stand for just so much. Within three days...
Cried New Zealand's Delegate W. J. Jordan (as Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky moved that France be barred from voting rights on the Rumanian and other east European treaty commissions): "Quack! Quack! Quack!" Said Senator Tom Connally (as he embarked to join Secretary of State Byrnes in Paris): "All you do is sit all day going...
...allowed, civil liberties are nonexistent and even a wedding invitation must be censored. Mohandas K. Gandhi has advised Goa's Governor General Dr. José Ferreira Bossa that the Portuguese would be "wise to come to terms with the inhabitants of Goa." Cried Governor Bossa, servant of a European dictator: "Fascist." Cried the Congress organ, Amrita Bazar Patrika, accustomed to a more pachydermic opponent: "This puny Governor must be told that India is in no mood to waste time in arguments with petty imperialists...
...enough troubles to watch out here!" As if to underline his point, in his Tribune last week he reminded his vast Midwest audience-at 1,075,000 it is second only to the News's-that he still regards the alien East as wicked and full of European influences...
Produced and directed respectively by European Veterans Arnold Pressburger and Douglas Sirk, this suave, tinkling entertainment has a marked continental accent. It is evident in the Casanovian irony with which such matters as adultery and infatuation, both virginal and senile, are handled; in George Sanders' chilled-okra delivery of his classically flippant lines; in Hanns Eisler's unconventional score; and in the constant indication that the sets and costumes and lighting were controlled by people interested in applying their knowledge of the fine arts to the screen...