Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Emeritus James Bryant Conant last week defended the American system of public secondary education against critics who would replace it with a European-type system...
Georgetown University's courtly Tibor Kerekes (pronounced Care-a-kesh), 66, professor of European history, whose 32 hugely popular years in Washington have been a mere second act to an already crowded career in the maelstrom of World War I Europe. Budapest-born, Kerekes was a Hungarian cavalryman on the Russian front (he later lost an arm), became tutor to the Habsburg family in 1917 and claims he is the only living person who knows the ''true story" of the tragedy at Mayerling. Emigrating to the U.S., he tried orange growing in Florida, wound...
...homeland"). That well-forgotten U.S. ballad, Memories Are Made of This, beats out of the German jukeboxes as Heimweh (homesickness), and the manufactured nostalgia seems violently contagious. In three years, Freddy's Heimweh has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. It is the alltime European pop-record champ...
...Churches (membership: 1,401,565) agreed to merge with the Evangelical and Reformed Church (membership: 807,280). Working out an organic union between the two bodies is no simple matter; in Congregationalism each local church is entirely autonomous, whereas the Evangelical and Reformed Church is set up in the European tradition of pyramidal administrative authority. The first order of business before the 700 delegates who met in Oberlin last week for the second General Synod of the merging churches was consideration of a new constitution to combine the two principles...
Died. Vittorio Podrecca, 76, creator of the Rome-based Piccoli puppet theater, a group of 800 sprightly marionettes (manipulated by 23 minutely trained humans) who parodied human behavior from bullfights to ballet, charmed European and U.S. audiences in their grand tours in the '30s; in Geneva...