Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European colleagues often find considerable pleasure in hurling critical thunderbolts at our culture, or lack of it. Most of them are aimed at the so-called mass culture, the conformity and the averageness of American life. Eg: Rene MacColl, embarking for London shouts "Home soon! I am hopping away from this great, swarming ant heap of a country..." And here, in the ant heap, David Riesman states, "One thinks of ribbon-like roadside slums...man-made rural ugliness.... and the endless aesthetic atrocity of the cities." There is undeniably something...
...Krupp "might" also finance a bridge across the Bosporus, "might" build a railway to Iran (he did say that he would be happy to furnish some of the equipment). German willingness to spend in Turkey partly results from Germany's $2 billion gold and dollar balance in the European Payments Union, which can most advantageously be invested in another EPU country...
Traditionally, the U.S., like other major powers, has tried to see that its citizens on duty in foreign countries are assured as nearly equal legal rights as they would have at home. This is relatively uncomplicated in European nations, where the "host-nation" juridical system usually has more of a common basis with Anglo-Saxon law, but it creates difficulties in the Far and Middle East, because the 19th century practice of extraterritoriality is identified with imperialism's toplofty ways...
...Broke. Poor financing did what the elements could not, and by 1888 Coleman was bankrupt. Borax Smith took over Coleman's mining properties, consolidated all his mines into the Pacific Coast Borax Co. and, to boost European sales, merged with a British chemical company headed by James Gerstley, father of present U.S. Borax President Gerstley. But Smith also overextended himself, also went broke. To pay creditors, he was forced to sell out his stock to Gerstley and other Britons with holdings in the new company, which eventually became known as Borax (Holdings) Ltd. Domination of U.S. borax mining passed...
F.D.R. on the Lupercal. Author de Riencourt adopts these arbitrary terms to pose an equally arbitrary theorem: Greek culture was to Roman civilization what European culture is to the coming American civilization. U.S. bread and circuses -"Hollywood's sleek motion pictures, American newspapers and magazines, soft drinks, dentistry"-already dominate Europe. He cites a ream of historical parallels that do not prove the theory but endlessly restate it. American readers are used by now to the pat European charge of ubiquitous vulgarity, and will bear the tag of "The New Rome" peaceably. But they will bridle at the suggestion...