Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists were in a tight spot. Comrade Tito's government fumed; a formal Yugoslav note denounced the Western proposal as serving only "chauvinist hatred." Next day Yugoslav Foreign Minister Stanoje Simitch announced more calmly that, as far as he was concerned, the Italians could have Trieste-but only in exchange for Italian Gorizia. It was not much of an offer...
...Italian crisis will come some time between April 18, when the polling takes place, and early May, when the new government will be formed. Western observers believe that the Communists will poll between 37% and 45% of the votes. A small margin might make a terrible difference...
...opening of new guerrilla fronts. Left to themselves, the rebels might win. But with Nicaragua behind the faltering government forces, and the Guatemalans doing their bit for the opposition, it looked as though Costa Rica, which Peru's Haya de la Torre had called "the Czechoslovakia of the Western Hemisphere," might instead become an international battleground on the pattern of civil-war Spain...
According to Anglican Dix, this attitude carried over into Protestantism. When the Reformers set up their own forms of the Eucharist, he says, they "took as their model . . . not the primitive corporate action with its movement and singing, but the medieval Western development of low Mass-the 'simple said service' performed by a single minister, at which the people had only to look and listen and silently pray...
There are no chords (in the Western sense) in Hovhaness' trance-like music. He hates chords. Says he: "It is a European sophistication ... to force melody to submit to the dictatorship of harmony." Hovhaness himself uses ancient Indian ragas, or what he calls "groups of associated notes" and tolas, groups of beats, rather than the conventional rhythms...