Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed alliance would link the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg in a one-for-all, all-for-one defense against aggression, i.e., by the U.S.S.R. In effect, the U.S. and Canada were joining themselves to the others, who had already formed a Western Union under the Brussels Treaty (TIME, March 15 et seq.) and picked Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to mastermind their joint defenses. "The combined resources of the Brussels Pact nations cannot at this time provide enough military strength to assure effective resistance to aggression," the State Department said. "Because of its preponderant strength...
...Marshall Plan, said the State Department in outlining the plan, was not enough to insure Western Europe's recovery. Among the Marshall Plan nations of Europe, there was still fear of Russian aggression, fear which might "destroy the psychological basis upon which recovery depends." The North Atlantic Alliance would be an "antidote to fear." Just how far would it commit the U.S. to military support of Western Europe? The State Department was not yet ready...
...chamber music festival in Connecticut. At dinner that night, Mr. Stock suggested that Mrs. Coolidge's quartet should play at the festival. Her answer, "Why go so far; why not have it here?" was the beginning of the great scheme which has made the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts a world famous music center. Appropriately enough Mrs. Coolidge was made honorary president of Tanglewood when it was organized...
...River. Howard Hawks's rattling good western, with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME...
...latest book, Holes in the Sky, continues along the same pleasantly minor way. MacNeice's poems are bedded in the conviction that western man is living in a bad time and that he must make the most of each immediate moment. With this moderate epicureanism, he values most the pleasures of physical existence, the "daydream free from doubt" which is art, and an attitude of simple respect for fellow men. On such a tentative basis men can still live in the modern world...