Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blocked. Even if he is only partially successful, there would be less money for housing, social security, and other items that are necessary for the whole nation--not just veterans. And if Rankin gets most of what he wants, the United States might as well get ready to ask Western Europe for a Marshall Plan in reverse...
President Conant is among the ten leading personages in the country, the University of Wisconsin's newspaper, the Daily Cardinal, has found in a poll of faculty members of the mid-western school...
Professor Hopper will discuss the military aspects of the question. Last Friday, Lincoln Gordon, professor of Government and Administration at the Business School, dealt with the possibilities and probabilities of federalism for western Europe...
...national culture by ensuring vital "friction between its parts." In the same way, different national cultures help towards the unity of international culture; men of good will who dream of nothing but ideological and international unanimity are, Eliot warns, culture's worst enemies. In the Eliotian western world, Catholic must continue to debate with Protestant, theist with atheist, class with class, creating a "Christendom . . . within [whose] unity there should be an f endless conflict between ideas...
Come, Sweet Death. All this is said with such politeness that many people may put down this little book without fully realizing what a deadly kick in the teeth of western culture it is meant to be. If culture is what Eliot says it is, and can be nothing else, then it is plucking at the coverlet in Britain and virtually dead everywhere else, including the U.S. But this is exactly what Eliot's Notes says-that another Dark Ages is just around the corner...