Word: europeanize
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Former Harvard Gurney Professor of History Henry Stuart Hughes, a leader in the field of European intellectual history and a nuclear disarmament activist, died in San Diego of pneumonia on Thursday...
Hughes was an expert on modern European history, specializing in European intellectual history...
...alienation begins as soon as the theater schedule is published. The vast majority of directors at Harvard are not minorities, nor are the majority of featured playwrights. The Harvard Theater Database indicates that since 1995, August Wilson, a pivotal African-American playwright, has been performed once at Harvard, while European writer Tom Stoppard has graced the stage 4 times and Shakespeare...
...Most directors attribute their current choices of plays to their own personal tastes. Dorothy Fortenberry '02 of Uncommon Women and Others notes that while she is concerned about the absence of minority playwrights in Harvard theater, she as a European-American woman would be uncomfortable attempting to direct a work by a minority. "Would I be able to do it justice?" she wonders...
...seeing scores of broken bodies strewn across the marketplace and the corpses of a large number of women and babies at the maternity home. The U.S. expressed concern over the civilian casualties, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held tense talks on the crisis at a meeting on aid with European Union leaders in Finland Friday ? the E.U. urged Moscow to halt its offensive and negotiate, but Putin stuck to his guns. Hardly surprising, since the Chechnya campaign is the neophyte prime minister?s prime opportunity to make a name for himself ahead of next year?s presidential election...