Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once the Western powers reacted with speed and vigor. U.S. General Lucius Clay stated that there would be no further four-power meetings on any level until the Russians returned to the council...
...Romans in the jammed Piazza del Popolo, Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's No. 1 Communist, laid down the new line. Clad in a grey, double-breasted suit, he mounted a flag-draped truck, lashed out in a high-pitched voice against the "tortuous and Jesuitical policy" of the Western powers. "These powers do not want peace on our Eastern frontier," he charged. "Their declaration . . . amounts to ... an invitation to prepare for war." As for Trieste: "I repeat that after April 18 and the victory of the Democratic Front, we shall have peaceful accord with Yugoslavia within 48 hours...
...historical function of civilizations to serve, by their downfalls, as steppingstones to a progressive process of the revelation of always deeper religious insight . . . civilizations will have fulfilled their function when once they have brought a mature higher religion to birth; and, on this showing, our own Western post-Christian secular civilization might at best be a superfluous repetition of the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman one, and at worst a pernicious backsliding from the path of spiritual progress. In our Western world of today, the worship of Leviathan-the self-worship of the tribe -is a religion to which...
...Spiritual Heir. "If this self-criticism is just, then we must revise the whole of our present conception of modern history.. . . Our present view of modern history focuses attention on the rise of our modern Western secular civilization as the latest great new event in the world. ... If we can bring ourselves to think of it, instead, as one of the vain repetitions of the Gentiles-an almost meaningless repetition of something that the Greeks and Romans did before us and did supremely well-then the greatest new event in the history of mankind will be seen...
...Natural Science course, entitled "Organic Evolution," will be conducted by Alfred S. Romer, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology. In the Humanities, courses in "Art in Man's Environment" and "The Idea of Progress in Western Literature and Thought" will compensate for the omission of Humanities 12a next fall...