Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S new series of hidden art masterpieces derives from many sources, including the travels of Associate Editor Alexander Eliot, who has made four thorough explorations of European painting, sculpture and architecture, quests that uncovered many works of genius not listed in the tourist guides. In Spain last year Eliot visited the monastery of Montserrat. After long discussion with the monks, he was admitted to the cloister, a rare privilege. While his wife waited patiently outside, Eliot studied the monastery's art collection, stood entranced before Caravaggio's Saint Jerome. On his return, TIME got permission...
When Europe's six-nation Common Market went into business last New7 Year's Day amid acclaim as the harbinger of European unity, some of Europe's most vigorous and ubiquitous traders-notably the British-were conspicuously and wistfully left outside. Preferring its Commonwealth and U.S. customers, traditionally hesitant to subordinate its own island independence in any Continental supranational scheme, Britain had failed to persuade the Common Market to adopt a free-trade system that would have more loosely linked 17 European nations...
...sniping. And the British decided that if they couldn't lick 'em, and wouldn't join 'em, they would try another tack. With the inspired doggedness that characterizes British diplomacy at its best, the British set to work to stave off the prospect of a European economy permanently divided...
...speech before the Summer School Conference on Educational Administration, Conant explained that institution of a European system would necessitate among other measures, abandonment of four-year liberal arts colleges and setting up a uniform standard and system of college admissions...
...There is no sense denying that there are great differences in the standards of living of the Polish people and those of many other European countries," said Adam Szpunar in a talk on "The social and economic conditions in Poland and Yugoslavia," last night at the third public session of the Harvard Summer School International Seminar...