Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill calling for the entry under parole of an estimated 67,000 refugees a year, a change in the quota-basing system to 1950 census figures that will raise quota immigrations from 155,000 to 220,000 a year, and a change in quota procedures that would allow southern European and Mediterranean nationals to utilize unused quotas for northern Europeans...
...green- and red-bereted paratroopers, legionnaires and spahis to take over the city of Algiers and its teeming Casbah. Troops stood outside stores and restaurants frisking every passerby, man and woman. All parcels were opened to prevent bombs from being planted in public places by anybody, European or Moslem. At least two soldiers rode every streetcar and bus. A constant cover of helicopters hovered over the city. Essential municipal services were kept running by troops or French civilian volunteers. Soldiers ran bakeries, distributed food, while schoolboys delivered telegrams...
Family: Married in 1922 to clerical worker. One son is a clerk for the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg, the other a telephone-company technician in Munich...
Born and raised on the Italian-French border, d'Entreves is naturally not only poly-lingual but also polycultural. "I consider myself a European," maintains the Professor. "Europe is my home, not merely Italy or England." Beginning his career with a thesis on Hegel, d'Entreves received his doctorate at the University of Turin. For the next three years the professor studied at Oxford and in Germany, and in 1929 began his pedagogic career as lecturer at Turin. The ensuing years found him engaged in peripatetic assignments at Turin, Massina, and Paville, and in 1932 he received his D. Phil...
Harvard, to d'Entreves, is a bit of home. He feels that the University has preserved some European strands, and, in America, is closest to European "congeniality." "I am completely lost in New York," he confesses. Although gowns are not worn here, the Professor quotes the Italian proverb, "The garb doesn't make the friar." Harvard's liberal spirit and conservative facade make this University comfortable and familiar to d'Entreves...