Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main patterns of transition through which its neighbors were passing. Unique in many ways, Siam was most important in the fact that it had escaped any serious contact with Western imperialism. India had been unified by imperialism and its cultures had been left more or less intact under a veneer of Westernization; its rulers in independence were trying to bring old & new together. Burma's ancient way of life had been all but destroyed by Western rule; now the Westerners had left Burma and it was wallowing in chaos. To Siam's east lay Indo-China, where...
...Temptation. Barth has insisted that Communism presents a far different problem to Christianity than did Naziism (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948). To support Naziism, he said, was a "temptation" for Christians; the Nazis invited support with a fake veneer of Christianity. But since the Communists are frankly opposed to religion, and Christians are hardly tempted to endorse Communism, Barth feels that the church is not obliged to add its voice to the anti-Communist denunciations of politicians...