Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Western Europe, tanned, crew-cut boys and golden girls in ponytails reluctantly faced up last week to the end of the prodigal summer, began settling back into the familiar patterns of work, family and school. Listening to their nostalgic tales of Stockholm love affairs, or bikini-and-bistro living on Spain's Costa Brava, their elders brooded over the appalling deficiencies of Europe's younger generation. To Britain's Arthur Koestler, they seemed "earnest, bland, sober ... a generation without profile, whose typical gesture is a great silent shrug." In Germany, a Volkswagen personnel man remarked with...
Adults may disapprove, but today's young Western Europeans, from 25 on down, represent something new and promising on the crosspatch old face of the Continent. Growing up in the aftermath of World War II, they have scant interest in the traditional rivalries that fueled it, are subtly but surely moving toward a common European mentality...
...idealistic process. Says a cynical Parisienne: "If the whole youth of Europe was told, 'You are a unity from the Elbe to the Atlantic,' its answer would be, 'We could not care less.' " Yet, in practice, young Europeans recognize their kinship. "Wherever I go in Western Europe," says a Berlin physics student, "I feel as if we all have the same blood group. We don't really have to bother to get acquainted, because there's nothing strange about anybody's life or ways. We can get right down to the fine points...
...young Europeans prefer the same drinks, dances and music. When French teen-agers began wearing black stockings, it was not long before Oxford undergraduettes and Düsseldorf schoolgirls were sable-calved too. German youth has developed a taste for soft French and Italian cheeses. And all over Western Europe this summer, the popular song was Petite Fleur-composed by a New Orleans clarinetist, recorded by a British jazz band, and bestselling in Germany...
...long steered a perilous course through the tricky tides of Asian politics. He was raised a Christian and educated at Oxford, where his debating skill earned him the admiration of his English classmate, Anthony Eden. But once back home, Banda renounced Christianity in favor of Buddhism, threw off Western dress in favor of long white sarongs, and plunged into the movement that was to bring Ceylon independence within the Commonwealth in 1948. In 1951 he set up his own Marxist Ceylon Freedom Party. Five years later he was, as Eden had predicted, his country's Prime Minister...