Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bradley, have been supporting it from a military angle, claiming that strengthening the treaty countries would give us European bridgehead in case of war, that "abandosing these countries with a promise of later liberation" is militarily unsound. Bradley and his colleagues believe that the arms aid could enable Western Europe to hold on until the U. S. could "funnel in forces...
...West will never preserve its influence in Asia by backing governments which have nothing to offer but anti-Communism. It must choose allies who can show that Western democracy has more to offer the people of Asia than the Communists. This is the lesson of the collapse in China...
...basic attribute of Western sculpture, that look of motion kept reappearing throughout the Met's show. It was present in Tullio Lombardo's 15th Century Adam and in Jean Antoine Houdon's 18th Century masterpiece, The Bather. A 20th Century example was the lie de France, a nude female torso by the late great Frenchman Aristide Maillol, who had gone so far as to imitate even the damages to classical sculpture by leaving off head, arms arid feet...
...flourish and die again & again in an eternal circle of recurrences. Man's only hope, Plato taught, was to free his spirit from imprisonment in the living death of the bodily world. When the Biblical-Christian conception of history replaced this classical view, says Niebuhr, "the dynamism of Western culture was made possible." Christian teaching viewed and still views history as a meaningful interplay of God's purpose and man's free will. Armed with his new sense of freedom, man was able to launch upon a prolonged era of creativity. But the "unanticipated disaster" of modern...
...sharpness of detail worthy of first-rate talent. But the paradox of the central vision in Nausea is so forced and barefaced that most readers will not be able to accept it as anything but a perversion of the truth, a degenerated twisting of the classic experience of Western...