Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes. Until the coup, Czechoslovakia was the only country within the Soviet orbit where TIME & LIFE could be distributed freely. It was the only country freely visited by people from other Russian-dominated countries and, therefore, almost the last portal through which the publications of the Western democracies could find their way to the countries behind the Iron Curtain. As this letter goes to press, TLI has written Czechoslovakia off as another example of the fact, which TLI has learned the hard way, that the war of ideas is a real...
...Italian elections, on their calendars and watched as Italians prepared to go to the polls. In the U.S. hand were other political cards like the ace on Trieste. The cards were not revealed but they could be: a proposal to admit Italy to the United Nations, even into Western Union; an offer to let Italy sit in on discussions of the economic future of Germany...
...machinery, $16,277,000 worth of machine tools and parts, $1,267,000 worth of automobiles and trucks, $420,000 worth of aircraft parts. But the total of $431,483,000 worth of exports sent all countries behind the iron curtain was only one-tenth of U.S. exports to Western Europe...
Last week his aim was mirrored by the Soviet-controlled German press in screaming headlines: "Western Powers Destroy Control Council." By blaming the West for the council's paralysis, the Soviets hoped to gain support among Germans who see it as the symbol of eventual German unity...
Hovhaness has written eight symphonies, but now regards with contempt all the music he wrote up to four years ago. Says he: "Western music probably reached its peak with Mozart, and certainly with Beethoven. Since then, more & more it has become overloaded with superficial harmony; like some baroque building it seems about to collapse with ornamentation...