Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning with the East German revolt of June 17, 1953-and the Russians, who set great store by anniversaries, announced the Budapest executions on the fifth anniversary last week of that first satellite uprising-Russia's eastern European empire has been in a continual state of ferment, sometimes bubbling below the surface, sometimes , boiling over into open defiance. Convinced that Stalinist rigidity could not keep the lid on this pot forever, Stalin's successors tried to master the situation by easing up Moscow's pressure on the satellites. In one of history's most humiliating about...
Speaking from a paneled room of Rio's Catete Palace, with 20 hemisphere ambassadors present, Kubitschek praised the U.S. for its prompt aid in reconstructing war-ruined European economies. But, he said sadly, Washington did not show "equal interest in the serious problem of development in countries still with rudimentary economies." Thus, according to Kubitschek, Latin America found itself "in a more precarious and afflicted position than the nations devastated by war, and has become the most vulnerable point within the Western coalition." The President warned: "The Western cause will unavoidably suffer if in its own hemisphere no help...
...glance tells that many Americans who are classified as Negro have plenty of European "blood"; white people with Negro blood are harder to distinguish. Their African genes may not affect their appearance and they usually do not know that some of their ancestors "passed." In the Ohio Journal of Science, Sociologist Robert P. Stuckert of Ohio State University attempts to estimate how many white Americans have some African ancestry...
...Stuckert's estimates can be attacked in detail, but sociology offers little comfort to white Americans who try to maintain that a single African ancestor, however remote, makes a man Negro. About 60 generations have passed since the heyday of the Roman Empire; so an American of European ancestry is descended from 2 60 (1,152,921,504,606,846,976) ancestors at the time of the Emperor Hadrian. This immense figure is not to be taken literally, but it surely means that people with ancestors who lived in the Roman Empire, including England and part of Germany...
...19th century. Next September the record will be brought up to date with the publication of his book on the impressionists. Together the volumes will be a clear case for Bazin's claim that the Louvre "contains the most complete collection of works from all the great European schools, from primitives to moderns, ever to be assembled under one roof...