Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Violins & Candy Bars. Western music was introduced into Japan before the turn of the century, but its tonalities and forms were so alien to the whining microtones of Oriental music that it found only a small following. By the 1930s, German music teachers had settled in Japan and introduced their ear-training methods into school music programs. The Japanese, in turn, brought the Western techniques to Korea during their prewar occupation. After World War II, the presence of Americans in Japan and Korea stimulated even more interest in the Western repertory...
...come about that a man born poor, losing his mother at birth and soon deserted by his father, afflicted with a painful and humiliating disease, left to wander for twelve years among alien cities and conflicting faiths, repudiated by society and civilization, repudiating Voltaire, Diderot, the Encyclopédi and the Age of Reason, driven from place to place as a dangerous rebel, suspected of crime and insanity, and seeing, in his last months, the apotheosis of his greatest enemy-how did it come about that this man, after his death, triumphed over Voltaire, revived religion, transformed education, elevated...
Western democracy was centuries in the creating. Teaching its fragile forms and subtle exercises to an alien culture would be a difficult experiment in the best of circumstances. To try to transplant democracy to Viet Nam in the year 1967 would seem a rash and reckless enterprise in the worst of places at the worst of times. Yet this year, South Viet Nam has promulgated a constitution written by a popularly elected Constituent Assembly. Voters in more than 4,000 villages and hamlets have gone to the polls to choose their own local officials. And last week the people...
...their estate affairs in order. One group of stockholders tried to hold on to a few papers, but Thomson was adamant about getting them all. The only thing he did not get was the chain's one radio station, WHBC, in Canton; the 1912 Communications Act forbids an alien to hold a station license.* "We gave the Thomson group first chance," says Brush-Moore President G. Gordon Strong, "because we knew they wish to preserve this organization intact and operate the papers with a maximum degree of local autonomy...
...rare occasions when the legislators do convene, they get so little staff research assistance that decisions must often be based on inadequate information. Moreover, there are just too many lawmakers -253 in all. Not surprisingly, Republican Governor Raymond P. Shafer complains of "a state structure that has become alien to the needs of its citizens...