Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible," he wrote, "that Soviet leadership feels it necessary deliberately to misrepresent the American viewpoint" when it accuses the U.S. of planning preventive war. "If so, one effect would be to confuse their own people and the people of the Eastern European countries under their domination." Other motives, said Ike, might be: 1) the Russians do not want to cooperate, or 2) as orthodox Communists they still believe capitalist societies are inherently warlike, or 3) their leaders are simply ignorant of U.S. life...
...orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world." T.R. began to keep the peace with a big stick. With a threat of intervention by the Fleet, he effectively warned rampaging German Kaiser Wilhelm II away from Venezuela. He landed U.S. forces in Santo Domingo to forestall European atempts to "collect debts," put U.S. agents backed up by marines to work at the customs houses, collected enough revenue to pay the debts, then withdrew. Roosevelt astonished the world by honoring the U.S.'s Spanish-American War pledge to Cuba not to trespass upon but rather to support...
...Japanese situation than almost any other," T.R. said after the Treaty of Portsmouth. "Thank heaven we have the Navy in good shape." Into the White House trickled a stream of intelligence reports that Japan was preparing to attack the Philippines, or Panama, or both, indicating, too, that many European powers were not averse to balancing off new Japan against the emergent might...
...Nasser plunged into the Arab circle that he marked out for an Egyptian sphere of influence in his The Philosophy of the Revolution, he found time to push Egyptian leadership in his "second circle-the continent of Africa.'' Nasser wrote then: "The white man, representing various European nations, is again trying to redivide the map of Africa. We will never in any circumstances be able to relinquish our responsibility to support, with all our might, the spread of enlightenment and civilization to the remotest depths of the jungle...
Authentic Touches. The previous Met mounting of Butterfly lasted an astonishing 34 seasons, dating back to the year Geraldine Farrar retired from the role. For the new production, General Manager Rudolf Bing suggested several European designers, including Cecil Beaton, but Patron Starr would have none of them, personally went to Japan and brought back two experts: Yoshio Aoyama of Tokyo's Kabukiza Theater as director and Stage Designer Motohiro Nagasaka for sets and costumes. Between them, they stripped Butterfly of all its sukiyaki-styled stage business, painted it in subdued colors ("to express inner harmonies and conflicts"), dressed...