Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower is not alone to blame for the unfortunate state of some of the important Western European ambassadorships. The tremendous expenses necessary for the maintenance and conduct of the embassies in, for instance, London and Paris, effectively preclude the selection of anyone not independently wealthy. Thus, both Eisenhower and his Democratic predecessors have had to rely upon prosperous individuals who are ready to sacrifice a good deal of their time and wealth for diplomatic work...
Gertrude's childhood, while not precisely happy or secure, was not unusual. The Steins took their children abroad for four years, where governesses and tutors worked to give them a European education. Miss Stein remembered having French bread with mutton soup for breakfast and always maintained that Paris got into her blood during that period...
...rigidly Moslem as Saudi Arabia, and political meetings in Guinea come to a halt at sundown, when everyone troops out, shucks shoes, and bows to Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade and commerce, has also left its mark: the "European" towns of East Africa take more after Bombay than after any city in Europe. In Kenya a member of the Legislative Council may rise to speak, dressed in a skirt shaped after his Luo tribal costume of skins, but a flunky in knee britches and silver buckles carries a mace...
...potters pumping their wheels and smudging their smocks as they "throw" the wet spinning clay. One of the most indefatigable sponsors of the revival is Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts Director Anna Olmsted, who launched a series of national ceramic shows in 1932, this year invited entries from ten European countries, Canada and Hawaii. Some $3,200 in prizes was awarded by a jury headed by Painter-Ceramist Henry Varnum Poor, generally considered dean of modern U.S. potters. The show will travel to five more U.S. cities in the next year, last week was on view at Manhattan...
...introduction to the show's catalogue, Juror Poor ruefully concludes that U.S. potters are not yet up to their European contemporaries. Perhaps, he says, it is because Americans "contend with more automobiles, more radios and television, more chain stores and packaging, more of all the things that induce nervousness and discontent and dissipate the patience and oneness most necessary for a potter...