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...with great assurance that a society intending to reach development cannot succeed without understanding Western civilization and the spirit of Western civilization. Societies unfamiliar with this spirit shall never succeed in introducing a positive change in their lives. Many Islamic societies, such as ours, are still regretfully deprived of such knowledge. We are not yet aware of the various facets of Western civilization, and our encounter with the West is mostly on the surface; that is, we have approached the West either with fascination or abhorrence...
...local communities during the first days of our time here. With this information, we would better understand our new home and new neighbors. The history lesson would be well complemented by tours of the city--not the usual Yard, Square and Garden Street loop, but a trip to more unfamiliar parts of the city, perhaps including East Cambridge, Cambridgeport and Riverside...
...order to defeat the Crimson, the Wildcats will need to solve Harvard's stifling defense, which forced an astounding 30 URI turnovers on Wednesday. The Wildcats will also have to contain Feaster, an unenviable task which might force UNH into unfamiliar defensive sets such as a box-and-one zone...
...paintings interspersed through the text transcend this discontinuity. New Criticism be damned, Benfey glories in tying the fiction of Cable and Chopin and the art of Degas to their personal lives. Whether connecting Degas' cousins to various figures in his paintings or noting how Degas' artistic preoccupation with the unfamiliar presence of African-Americans seeped into his work, Benfey perceptively joins life...
...rhythm, look and attitude of Channel Umptee-3, for example, are extremely familiar. You've seen all the moves a million times, and watching the show you enter a state of reflexive TV consciousness. The pace and tone of the more simplistic programs, on the other hand, is very unfamiliar, which makes them oddly fascinating. More effectively than a minimalist musical composition or a 16-hour theater piece featuring lots of chanting, they stretch your sense of time and change your mode of thinking. They also exercise an emotional attraction as they reassure the child within that the world...