Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered a whole section of the message to be devoted to the national need to balance the budget as an essential element of U.S. and free world stability. And he got some support for his case from the news that the dollar was losing some of its appeal to European currencies following Europe's recent moves to ease convertibility (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...extravagant that they have little time for personal life"). Himself a onetime viola prodigy, he made his conducting debut with the Berlin Philharmonic when he was 20. In his years of battling for new works, he has developed a reputation of being the timpani-tempered tyrant of European music. He generally bans composers from rehearsals of their own works, never hesitates to cut whole passages from new works he disagrees with...
What apparently happened, says Professor Loureiro, was that the small, timid Xetás were driven into the rugged Serra dos Dourados by stronger tribes. Some time during the last four centuries they must have had terrifying brushes with European frontiersmen. Their demonology is dominated by an ogre named Möul who shows in figurines as a tall, long-legged, wide-eyed person, probably a white man grown into a tribal devil. Having seen enough of Möul and his violent ways, the Xetás retired into the tangled heart of the Serra dos Dourados and managed...
Tucked into a dip in the plateau to avoid challenging the famed outline of the Parthenon, Athens' Acropolis Museum is an inconspicuous but memorable shrine to the great moment when European art was born. In little more than a century, Greek sculpture passed from the archaic, which was mainly imported, to the classical and home grown. The austere Greek figures of the 6th century B.C. gave way to the playful and nearly human marbles of the 5th century. This moment of new birth, perhaps the most important in art history, is newly documented as the Acropolis Museum celebrates...
...delight in the body, in health and in motion. They create-as in the lean hunting hound and the happy teenager below-uncanny illusions of physical truth. This concern for truth to nature and esthetic illusion was to become the wellspring of the Renaissance and of practically all great European...