Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Foundation plans-which were approved quietly by the U.S. State Department-call for exchange visits between Poland and the U.S. and West European countries of engineers, social science professionals, architects, educators and students, as well as shipments of books and periodicals to Polish libraries, institutions and individuals. "We know," Heald said, "that activity of an educational or scientific character is not a substitute for the essential security efforts of our Government. But we have the conviction that in the development of international understanding there is a proper and vital role for private institutions, including private philanthropy...
...position in society. Thus the middle class has been increased in numbers, while there has been no class lovingly devoted--like the Russian peasant--to the land. Although we realize that mere economic measures would not bring about the desired social structure, it is also true that the older European corporate and feudal system was partially broken down by just such a levelling process as that of the graduated income tax. By reversing that economic process, we might well bring about a situation in which a status society could be re-achieved. One of the most desirable features of such...
...stood guard, stands an outpost of the new U.S. Army. It is no sword-shield-and-visor legion of Caesar's hour; neither is it the sprawling sea of men and machines that fought the brutal battles of World War II. It is a unique organism, the Southern European Task Force-SETAF-whose job it is to support NATO's ground armies in that area. A tightly packed, well-trained band of about 6,000 men, SETAF comprises the U.S. Army's only operative atomic Missile Command in Europe...
...street. Two days before Zorin's statement, the Russians exploded a nuclear weapon of their own. It was the fifth (and one of biggest) Russian nuclear explosion in two weeks-explosions which, by curious coincidence, came hard on the heels of Soviet threats of hydrogen retaliation against European nations which agreed to the establishment of atomic NATO installations within their borders (TIME. April...
...famed portraits of Washington, an engraving by Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre, works by Benjamin West, Washington Allston, Whistler, Sargent, Homer, Eakins and Ryder. What the exhibition plainly shows is that a new school of painting sprang up in the U.S.. one that at times echoes its European origins, but that has its own national imprint and its own peculiar genius...