Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unavailable economic position of the United States and the beneficial political consequences of this position can hardly disregard these facts. At every turn in the world struggle for oil America's hand has been called. She now faces a situation economically dangerous in the extreme due fundamentally to European eleves ness in taking advantage of an American provincialism which cannot see before its nose, or rather beyond the narrow limits of the Atlantic and the Paciffe. The necessity for international point of view toward and understanding of the world problems has heretofore has little appeal to the unidealistic American. When...
...Longfellow who is often more European than American, sentimental didactic, too imitative often, bookish in inspiration, didactic, and typical of much of the narowness in his time and environment, has been often displayed before. So far as facts are concerned, Mr. Gorman repeats with accuracy for the most part. It may not be ungenerous, however, to remark that his summary (pp. 96-97) of American literature before Longfellow seems unhappy in its choice of critical epithets, and shaky in its chronology. One may be excused for disagreeing with the biographer's view that Longfellow's appreciation of wine...
Ambassador without Portfolio, Will Rogers explains in his own words his widespread activities during the European trip from which he has just returned. The author, like Artemus Ward, is another of those subtle critics of society whose with gives him the precious license to say what he thinks...
...Educational Ideals and Reforms in European Countries since the World War: France and Italy," Dr. Fritz Kellerman, Lawrence...
...worthwhile in this country is an importation, and that God loves the Irish, English, Russians, Germans, French, Spanish and Swedish--but not the Americans. Consequently the citizens of the much maligned and over advertised United States have assumed a rather nonchalant attitude; if there is no hope for extra European peoples then why worry. Life under the present bourgeois regime--and granted that it is bourgeois sometimes to the point of inanity--is sweet; and life under any regime is short--so why not make merry in one's own uncouth way? The intelligentsia phantom group, will shriek the truth...