Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls paraded down the gangplank. Like 74 "flying fraeu-leins" who arrived by chartered plane a few days earlier, they were marriageable girls brought in from West Germany by the Australian government at the demand of members of a powerful new Australian pressure group: bachelors, among the thousands of European immigrants, who have a hard time finding someone to marry in a sparsely settled land where men still outnumber women...
...unprecedented six shows in the Met's opening week reflects Bing's desire to lengthen the Metropolitan's season without conflicting with the commitments of Met singers to other opera companies, especially the San Francisco Opera and the European spring festivals. Though there is much to be said for the extension of a Metropolitan season, (It would offer more performances to opera lovers and steadier employment to performers.) the appearance of six operas in one week presents enormous problems...
Miss Yanguas came to the United States nine years ago. Since then she has always wanted to open a European Coffee House. The basement of Father Feeney's old stamping ground proved to be just the right place for what she had in mind...
Born in Pamplona, Miss Yanguas missed the coffee houses of her native city. She felt that Cambridge lacked a place where people could meet and talk in a quiet, pleasant atmosphere. So when she opened the Cafe Pamplona last May, she tried to keep it in this European tradition. As a result, the Cafe Pamplona is unique among the Cambridge Coffee Houses...
...keeping with the European tradition of the coffee house as a place to meet and converse with friends, Miss Yanguas does not allow any guitar playing or background music in her cafe. Even Segovia would not be allowed to disturb the quiet. Nor will she permit eccentric barefoot students to enter. "You wouldn't go to see a friend without your shoes," she declares...