Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North regime's belligerence is even more impressive considering the opposition it faces. Even important segments of the military have made clear their disapproval. Lieutenant General Sir Jeffrey Amherst and Admiral Augustus Keppel, two highly esteemed officers, have said that they would serve against any European enemy but not against the Americans. Indeed, at least nine general officers reportedly turned down the American command before General Howe accepted...
...gone to Europe to study, and a year ago summoned his wife and children to join him in London -all in fear of some musket volleys at Lexington. Judging from the few examples of his painting that have been seen since his European excursion, he may be in danger of acquiring that overobsequious, overdandified slickness that is the sine qua non of the European portraitist...
...brawling crowd. The famed 38 styles described in Legros's L'Art de la Coëffure des Dames Françoises had become de rigueur for all the best heads in Europe. But with the tastemaker gone, faddism has flourished-so much so that European ladies of fashion can now consult a 39-volume behemoth that illustrates no fewer than 3,774 current hair styles, many of them preposterous variations on the once decorous pompadour...
...Americans must ask an equally important question: Is independence really justified? Are the principles, the view of man, underlying last week's Declaration valid, and can a commonwealth based on them endure? Even now, many Americans are probably more committed to the principle of governmental legitimacy than most Europeans are. While the Americans' experience in a strange and unspoiled new world has liberated them from many outworn European ideas, it has at the same time made them cling for protection to basic European concepts of government and the rule...
Through most of history, the king has been thought to be an essential link in God's ordering of the universe, not necessarily divine himself but part of a divine system. Strongly influenced by modern European scientists and philosophers, as well as their own inherent practicality, Americans accept the divine system, but they believe that the ruling force in that divine chain is not a single man called king but man's own reason, as expressed through the will of the people. Whereas their ancestors of 100 or 150 years ago mistrusted man's rationality and relied...