Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several Radcliffe students last night expressed themselves in favor of the idea. "I would like to go," said one, "because European boys are so much easier to lead than Harvard men. And they cheer louder, too." Another added that European cheerleading is "much more continental and less athletic. Over there," she said, "a cheerleader is a lady of refinement and not a circus acrobat...
...last of the British paratroopers flew out of Jordan, young King Hussein prepared to depart too-for a European vacation. As he did so, neighboring Middle East governments tensed like pointers around the edges of King Hussein's sandy little Jordanian preserve...
Opening the fourth session of Britain's 300th Parliament last week, Queen Elizabeth II for the first time delivered her Speech from the Throne under the beady eye of the television camera. In Britain itself at least 12 million of her subjects were watching; in nine other European countries uncounted lovers of pageantry took in the spectacle...
Philosophy 138a, "European Existentialism," by its very nature, seems destined to attract a certain number of mid-morning auditors, dilettantes, and "fourth course" seekers. But if Emerson D were entirely filled by curious, rather than "serious" philosophy students, it would not daunt Professor William Earle...
Earle's scholarly interest in existentialism took form in 1947, when he spent a year studying under Gaston Berger, a leading European phenomenologist. Existentialism was "very much in the air" in Europe at that time, and Earle went on to receive his degree from the University of Aix-Marseilles in 1948. Before going to France, he studied at the University of Chicago. "I studied in the classical tradition," he comments. "Chicago is a fine place for that sort of scholarship, but it does not have a very creative atmosphere...