Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take Dirty Story, for instance, which Ambler wrote in 1967. Two European mining consortiums have extensive interests in two African countries side by side. A secret expeditionary force from one country discovers valuable ore just beyond its borders. They hire mercenaries to lead African troops in an effort to rearrange the border. A down-and-out fugitive, our hero, is waylaid in French Somaliland (he is forced to leave Greece for getting mixed up in a pornography racket) with passport problems. He meets a "businessman" and when effusively drunk he brags of a non-existent background in soldiering. Before...
...SALE. Old château-cozy rooms-observatory turrets-bird's-eye view of countryside-moss-lined alcoves containing sparkling gems looted from best jewel caskets of European nobility-occupants ready to leave at moment's notice-agent on premises...
...Europe cannot snub our native art." But when the imperial hegemony of American taste clamped down in the 1960s, Cornell was virtually left out. His delicate boxes, filled with tableaux made of everything from bark to butterfly wings, seemed too small and in fact too "European" to fit the current standards for major...
Because of a Harvard Corporation vote in early February, 13 undergraduate prizes and the Knox and Tower Fellowships for European Study are now open to Radcliffe students...
Harvard announced on February 12 that 13 prizes and the Knox and Tower Fellowships for European study can now be awarded to female undergraduates...