Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show how Farmer subjected all cooking processes to volume measurement rather than the usual weight system, which is more accurate and also more bothersome. Fannie also was guilty of tempting the gullible American sweet tooth, for she added sugar to many foods, such as bread, which Colonial and European cooks (the Hesses' heroes) had left unsweetened. She performed at least that mission admirably--Fannie Farmer candy stores are to be seen in suburban malls throughout the country...
Whatever the moral issues involved, the splits in the department seem to have played a large role in the decision of David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History and a noted scholar of European economic history, to switch into the Economics Department this July...
...several members of the department's junior faculty, all of whom asked not to be identified, expressed dismay at Landes's departure because they said the department will be unable to cover European history adequately without...
...well-known European scholar in another department commented this week that without Landes, the History Department's European section "will be much less distinguished than those at many other universities...
Senior faculty members in European history this week disagreed sharply with Handlin. "Some members of the department--certainly at least a half-dozen--expressed surprise and indignation at what emerged at that faculty meeting," one senior Europeanist said. "And that does not take account of the people that, though absent from the meeting, expressed similar sentiments later...