Word: europeanize
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...through such current luminaries as John Glenn, William Bratton and Wendy's founder Dave Thomas. Freemasonry probably began formally in the 1600s as an English gentleman's club, but by 1717 had evolved into an engine of the European Enlightenment. Its members were committed to egalitarianism, civic participation and other ideals expressed through tropes of the stoneworkers trade: the square for straightforward virtue; the compass to circumscribe one's passions; the plumb line to stay upright. There was little religion but much ritual, which enraged churchmen and engaged conspiracy theorists, who still flood the Web with Masonic villainies...
Charles S. Maier '60, Krupp professor of European studies, suggested the best way for students to advance their language proficiency is to go to places where they are not "native speaker...
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Holbrooke, a longtime member of the Democratic foreign policy establishment, had urged a stronger Bosnian policy. Clinton appointed him ambassador to Germany and then, when the Bosnian crisis deepened, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. Holbrooke already enjoyed a reputation for being overbearing and peremptory--qualities that were to prove indispensable at Dayton--and he is forthright about being no shrinking violet, engagingly quoting unflattering references to himself. "If I were to operate in a routine manner," he writes, "I might make fewer enemies... " His narrative provides a compelling account...
Strings occupy a special, not particularly exalted place in jazz, their use generally signifying either a descent into pop schlock or an ill-advised stab at European art-music "legitimacy." Or, in the worst cases, a truly appalling amalgamation of the two. Charlie Parker's recordings with strings are probably the genre's acme. With their mostly undistinguished arrangements backing the saxophonist as if he were a B-list crooner, the sessions have long been dismissed by jazzbos as being beneath his talents. But he himself was proud of them, and listeners today, accustomed to the burr-in-your...
With work well under way to bring a single European currency--the euro--into being next year, we asked several experts what European coin or bill they would miss the most...