Word: occidentale
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That power is a stark and appalling fact. It will be so appraised in every capital. Liberated Europe, hypersensitive to power, will note it well. Asia, where occidental prestige plummeted after Pearl Harbor and Singapore, will record it.
When Commodore Perry sailed into the harbor of Yokohama in 1854, he had no idea that he was contributing to a new esthetic movement in Europe. The pottery and ornaments which the Japanese began to export after Perry's visit were often wrapped in the Japanese equivalent of old...
When darkness fell, the click of locks and latches betrayed the arrival of the gentle nightly burglar; and often there was a series of high shrieks as the cook (who suffered from "an unfortunate hereditary malady") chased his sister around the Women's Bible School with a knife. "Being...
There were the usual Occidental eccentrics - British Miss Roder, who spent most of her time washing off Chinese contamination in boracic acid; American Mrs. Sedley, who believed she was "the nymph of the spring" and danced around a water hole in nightgown and flowers, crying: "Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus, Dionysus!"
Hinted the King with Oriental obliqueness: a chair like that would save him many steps in his palace at Riyadh. The President responded with Occidental directness. From belowdecks a spare chair was unearthed, dusted off, ceremoniously presented by the President of the United States to the King of Saudi Arabia...