Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visored cap. Since Stalin's death, the uniform has come under increasing fire as unbecoming and warlike. Last week boys in Moscow and Leningrad showed up with the official new look: an open-lapelled jacket, to be worn with shorts or long pants and topped by a casual European beret. The girls, though, will get no break. They go on wearing the same stern pinafore that dates from the time of Catherine the Great...
...forms, Tom Mboya cut to the heart of the issue with the question: Why was it only Africans who were prohibited from organizing on a colony-wide basis? Said he: "We wait to see what action the government now takes against the Indian Congress, the Moslem League, and the European Convention of Associations...
...Viscount was the great postwar success story of British civil aviation, has sold more than 400 of them. But it expects to end the Viscount run in 1960. The Viscount's successor, the Vanguard, which was first shown off last week, has a bare 40 orders from British European Airways and Trans-Canada Air Lines, far fewer than needed to break even. Bristol, whose turboprop Britannia was slowed by bugs, has sold only...
Amid the nation's scramble for brainpower, some men believe in imposing a uniformly "tough" curriculum on all students. Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover wants to set up European-style schools limited to the brightest scholars. To Conant, both ideas are anathema on realistic as well as philosophical grounds. A single standard would breed frustration, delinquency and lower standards. The elite school implies splitting up universal education on the European pattern...
Maria Dermout is a little old (71) Dutch lady who remembers the life she led in Java before the European was seriously challenged, a time long ago when all daddies were rich and most mammas were good-looking. When Author Dermout's first book. The Ten Thousand Things, showed up in the U.S. last year (TIME. March 3). it seemed too good to be true: an I-remember-I-remember exercise in graceful recollection that almost never stumbled into teary nostalgia. Her second book simply proves once again that no art is so sweet as artlessness, no truth...