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Edwin O. Reischauer, director of the Center for Far Eastern Studies, noted that "any of us interested in non-Western geography will be happy to see the Department instituted. It would supplement our courses and help students learn about parts of the world not normally covered in history courses...
...thesis on England and America during that period, studying the emergence of the politics of opinion. People in comparative government often mistake Europe for the world. And area scholars often ignore the wider issues. In India, you can see the classic problems of Western institutions unfolding in a non-Western culture. So, you might say, I was fortunate in marrying my wife...
...less and less U.S. advice. One example of this was a decision not even to use the phrase "antiCommunism" in any speeches in Thailand. Diem remains a Roman Catholic and a staunch antiCommunist, but he has become convinced that Communism is best fought in Asian terms, and from a non-Western base. The next stop, as Diem sees it (and as he hopes to convince other Southeast Asian leaders), is the creation of such a base through a revival and reappraisal of Asian culture and Asian values...
...vowel sounds and musically sustainable consonants. The composer was not interested in expressing ideas, but rather in evoking moods by exploiting sheer sonority and tonal colors. Occasionally there appeared such typical Vaughan Williams features as chordal parallelism; but mixed in with them were wonderful wailing appoggiaturas and, above all non-Western melodic lines that so characteristically turned back on themselves--which suffused the whole with a subtle, intoxicating exoticism. An important role went to a solo viola, superbly played by Jean Comstock, which expressed itself in a manner always wistful and often melancholy. Vaughan Williams inserted before each section...
...fever has spread to non-Western fields: there are Hopalong Cassidy cookies, candy bars, wallpaper, soaps and watches. A Hopalong Cassidy comic strip runs in 75 daily and 42 Sunday newspapers; every week a network of 500 Mutual radio stations broadcasts the General Foods-sponsored Hopalong Cassidy show (Sun. 4 p.m. E.D.T.). And Composer Nacio Herb Brown (You Are My Lucky Star, Singin' in the Rain) has signed up for the exclusive privilege of writing songs about Hoppy...