Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign ministers wound up a three-day meeting in Copenhagen's Christiansborg Palace, strange new sounds filled the air of Western Europe, and echoed in the big segment of the U.S. press that was cool or hostile to Dulles in his summit-conference position. Secretary Dulles, declared one European statesman, "is a much-maligned man. If only everyone could hear him in a closed session." "You know," echoed a member of one of the smaller NATO delegations, "Mr. Dulles did not once give us a lecture, did not once tell us about morality, did not once urge...
...Cold North Wind. The fact was, as the Daily Telegraph suggested, that there had been no essential change in the man whom Britain's left-wing Cartoonist David Low once labeled "Old Inflexible." The change that Europeans saw in him was more correctly a change in themselves. At the time of the Paris conference, European public opinion demanded a summit meeting-at least half-convinced that the Russians sincerely wanted a general settlement. But in the weeks preceding Copenhagen, the Russians 1) stalled over the ground rules for summit talks, 2) announced that they no longer felt bound...
Under the impact of these icy blasts from Moscow, many a European statesman began to express private doubts that a meeting would accomplish anything. At Copenhagen, Norway's Halvard Lange, once an all-out summiteer, now urged "extreme caution before we agree with the Russians on summit talks." West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, speaking for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who at Paris had startled the world by urging a fresh approach to the Russians, flatly declared: "We should not alter our position unless the Russians have a substantial offer to make...
...suggested in a party-processed statement by Russian Composer Dmitry Shostakovich: "Musical circles in the United States have a right to be proud ... of their young countryman, especially since until now the musical successes of that country resulted not from the efforts of Americans but of famous performers of European countries." Van's victory dramatically underscored that there is more first-rate native instrumental talent in the U.S. than in the whole of Europe. Moreover, the talent is younger. In Cliburn's generation there are at least nine pianists of equal native ability: Byron Janis, 30, Gary Graffman...
Gusher. U.S. artists have consistently won impressive triumphs abroad since World War II, and this summer, with a record number of American musicians touring, they will dominate the European musical scene. In 1952 Pianist Fleisher won first place at Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours against far tougher competition than Cliburn faced in Russia. In 1956 Pianist Browning (a Leventritt Award winner in 1955) came within a sixteenth note of taking first in the same competition, finally took second to Russia's Ashkenazy. This summer there are even two other Texas pianists-Ivan Davis, 25, who won first place...