Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question of Conscience. Last week, as Rusape citizens hammered away at the government to exile the Matimbas from the area, Prime Minister Sir Edgar Cuthbert Freemantle Whitehead rose in Parliament to move the second reading of an extraordinary amendment to the Land Apportionment Act. The amendment proposed that any European woman who married a native would legally become a native herself. Whitehead said that everybody would be free of party discipline to vote as they wished, because this "is more a question of conscience than of government policy." One opposition member foresaw some unexpected consequences. "We say," he began, "that...
...Patrick Matimba, the whole episode was proof that in multiracial Southern Rhodesia there is "very little hope that mutual tolerance and understanding will ever prevail. When the news got out that I had been banned from the European hospital, a European youth grabbed me by the tie in a fit of rage and nearly throttled me. He thought it was a crime that I should want to be beside my wife when...
...Basel a few critics tried to take a longer view, and delivered some hedged but daring predictions. German University Professor Wilhelm Boeck concluded: "An artistic event of intercontinental size that will surely affect the development of European painting. It places America next to Paris as a first-class power." Said Frankfurt Critic Albert Schulze Vellinghausen: "It's new and it's strong and it's important...
...first of them all-the transitional figure-was Arshile Gorky, who early imitated Picasso, then the surrealists, finally broke through to a style of his own combining strange anatomical images and fragments of observed nature. Emerging early as the most noted was Pollock, hailed by some European painters and critics as the first great innovator in modern art since the birth of cubism-and hooted at by others. Wrote Critic John Russell in London's Sunday Times after seeing a Pollock painting in 1956: "I will not say that I was prejudiced against Mr. Pollock's picture...
...opening of a brave, new, unfettered world of art. Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich finds the movement producing "the most fruitful work being done in this decade ... a new, vital kind of American abstraction, pictures which in sweep, size and dynamics display typically American qualities. Beside them many European contemporaries seem weak and uninventive...