Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of Harvard, however, is apathetic or antagonistic towards organized student activity on the international scene, and has only hazy recollections of NSA. Several reasons have been advanced to explain why American students in general are less enthusiastic about student movements than are their European, Asian and African counterparts...
First, the concept of one's "duty as a student" is less familiar in the United States than elsewhere. It is common for a European or Asian to identify himself with student interests until he is 30 years old or more...
...Tage Erlander, whose party has held power alone or as masters of a coalition almost uninterruptedly since 1932, fell by an adverse vote in the Swedish lower chamber. At issue was expansion of Sweden's welfare state, which already provides more cradle-to-grave benefits than any other European nation. Following his defeat, Erlander asked King Gustaf VI Adolf to dissolve Parliament...
Chile's Linea Aérea Nacional, for example, is subsidized by the government, does a sedate business at I.A.T.A. rates by ap pealing to national pride. Others offer special services, such as the direct European flights of Panair do Brasil, Cubana Air lines and Colombia's 38-year-old Avianca...
...Herbert Hoover, four decades later, stoutly defends his chief against what he believes was European cynicism, a failure of generosity and political imagination. Even now he tends to find saintliness where others might have seen ingenuousness. His book is at once the profoundly loyal tribute of an admiring subordinate and a compassionate judgment of one U.S. President by the most harshly judged U.S. President of modern times...