Word: western
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...search for such order goes back to the beginnings of man. Notches cut in reindeer bones and mammoth tusks from the Upper Paleolithic period may be records of the cycles of the moon as much as 25,000 years ago. Modern astrology, in the Western Hemisphere at least, derives from the Chaldeans of the Babylonian Empire who sent Berosus and his fellow astromancers up the ziggurats to study the stars for clues to human destiny. The assumption was only natural. The influences of the sun on the earth and the moon on the seas were obvious, and it was easy...
Instead of entering politics, she decided to earn a Ph.D. in the then unfamiliar field of anthropology. Under Franz Boas, the founder of American anthropology as an academic discipline, she caught the conviction that study of primitive societies could teach sophisticated Western man a good deal about his own institutions-and about changing them. At 23, she set off for six months alone among remote fisherfolk in American Samoa. The result of her research, published in 1928 when she was 26, was Coming of Age in Samoa...
When Czechoslovakia eased travel restrictions about five years ago, Western intellectuals ventured there with the wary air of men exploring some dark continent. They were surprised to dis cover that many Czechs were familiar with the plays of Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee, and had kept abreast of other Western cultural developments. If they dropped into Prague's Café Slavia around 4 p.m. any afternoon, they could have encountered several of the reasons why. A group of artists and writers who meet there have for years been assiduously importing and translating Western books, plays and art publications...
...Charles Bluhdorn tells the story, the deal was the most natural thing in the world. While vacationing in the Bahamas last December, the chairman of Gulf & Western Industries mentioned to James Crosby, chairman of Resorts International, that he had acquired 1.8 million shares of Pan American World Airways, or 5% of the total. Crosby then made Bluhdorn an "irresistible" offer to buy 900,000 shares and got an option on the balance...
...bother me--the ones with the funny hats and all, that don't train and just run for a fraternity stunt," gripes Jock Semple, giant of Boston distance running and head of the Boston Marathon. There are usually about 1000 entrants in the scenic 26-mile tour of the western suburbs, and turkeys abound...