Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spotlight on Europe. As the centuries whisk by, Sédillot takes only 18 pages to wrench Man out of the amoeba and plunk him down on the banks of the Nile. For the next 20 pages, history flashes from the Indus to the Mediterranean like a restless spotlight, fixing for a moment on King Hammurabi of Babylonia, the empire of Assyria, the fabulous and frivolous Palace of Knossos, and the Phoenician masters...
...Quiet One, by 32-year-old William Artis, dominated the sculpture section. A technical sergeant in the Mediterranean theater during the war, Artis came home to study with Ivan Mestrovic, the expatriate Yugoslav sculptor (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948) at Syracuse University. Mestrovic,' who knows as well as any man living how to make statues look like monuments instead of stone dummies, imparted some of his secret to Artis. The Quiet One (inspired by a documentary movie of the same name about childhood maladjustment in Harlem) is a quiet, beautifully compact monument to a Negro boy who sits withdrawn, miserable...
...Figaro. It was supposedly written by President Roosevelt to Jacob Zabronsky, president of the National Council of Young Israel, and it designated him Roosevelt's secret emissary to Stalin. It instructed Zabronsky to promise Finland and the Baltic states to Stalin, as well as a port on the Mediterranean, and commented on Red Marshal Timoshenko's "short but fruitful stay" in Washington. It ended with thanks to Zabronsky for presenting F.D.R. with a copy of the Scroll of the Jewish Torah on behalf of the national council...
...ably defended by a small, deadly force of janissaries (most of them Christian children, adopted by the state, and trained in fanatical devotion to the Sultan) and by the new Turkish fleet. Under a pair of swashbuckling corsairs, Khair-ad-Din Barbarossa and Dragut, the Mediterranean was swept clean, for more than a century, of European fleets...
...educated European is fiercely jealous of his position. Whether the university man is French or Dutch or Swiss, he is basically the same. "Each university does cling proudly and even fiercely to its distinguishing 'tradition'-and yet education on the Continent, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, is standardized ... I am forced to declare that there are respects in which the Continental method has become a hindrance to the Continent's survival. It is, in short, fossilized...