These two hours capture what America was then, still deeply enmeshed in the natural world, still a frontier country, but also becoming more civilized.

In addition, music was considered to have the power to transform people into becoming more civilized.

Smash had spent several days becoming manishly civilized.

"It helps us understand that population then, but also whether we have become more civilized," he said.

CIA didn't think in those terms because the intelligence business had become very civilized.

Today with reservations required for the more popular days, hunting has become more civilized, he said.

Would the Americans ever become civilized?

Once considered the holiday of overindulgence, New Year's Eve has become markedly more civilized.

Koku never had, and he never would, become entirely civilized.

The Uldras of this area live in the unused majority of it, and have become somewhat civilized.