Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South China is a much larger and more varied region than the north. The people of Kiangsi are the Scots of China and are said...
...sooner had the Chinese attacked India last year than the usually aloof Red Chinese diplomats scurried from their rambling Karachi embassy compound to court the Pakistanis. In December Ayub readily accepted China's offer to redraw the border between China's Sinkiang region and the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir in a way favorable to Pakistan. A trade agreement followed in January, and recently Pakistan's Foreign Minister hinted broadly that China had agreed to aid Pakistan against possible Indian attack. Last week Pakistan and Communist China signed an airline agreement that could make Pakistan...
Spanish Father. Sociologists contend that machismo is a hangover from the days when bloodthirsty Spanish conquistadors, ruthless and brave against greater forces, overran the region in the 16th century. The social system the conquerors brought with them was rigid and shot through with the sort of caste prejudice that obsessive inferiority feeds on. As they colonized, the conquistadors fathered the first generation of mestizos, part Indian and part Spanish. The mestizo grew up insecure, second-class, and prone to imitate the manliness of the powerful Spaniard who conquered his Indian forebears and sired his class...
...over Irvine's residential region, bulldozers and graders, carpenters and builders were busy this week. At Dover Shores, a development on upper Newport Bay, 70 houses of the planned 311 have already been completed (60% of the homesites in this development were sold in two months, for houses costing from $46,000 to $190,000). And earthmovers were digging away at a 160-ft.-high dam that will hold a billion gallons of water to be used by the University of California and the residents of Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach...
...dreadful pageant that seems to haunt Novelist-Historian Zoe Oldenbourg began on a hot, still day in 1209, when a French army took the city of Béziers, a bastion of one of history's most romantic territories. The region covered all of present-day southern France. Its palaces were rich in art and dominated by the codes of courtly love. Its tongue was a strange and musical dialect that had given the region a flourishing literature of poetry and was to give it a name-Languedoc (for langue d'oc, literally, the language...