Word: western
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dream: his long neglected works catch fire, illuminate his times and emblazon his name for posterity. It does not often come true, but it did for Herbert Marcuse. In the tumultuous 1960s his arcane and obscurely written books were suddenly discovered by student radicals in both America and Western Europe, and the white-maned, craggy-faced, cigar-puffing septuagenarian found himself a culture hero of the youth rebellion. A protesting student in Rome spoke for innumerable other rebels when he placed Marcuse in a holy trinity of revolutionaries: "We see Marx as the prophet, Marcuse as his interpreter...
...danger of more civil war seems greatest in El Salvador, the Western Hemisphere's most densely populated country, where 5.3 million people are crowded into an area no larger than Massachusetts. The government of President Carlos Humberto Romero has been locked in combat with three well-organized bands of leftist terrorists. One such group, the Armed Forces of National Resistance, has raised $40 million in the past two years by kidnaping foreign executives and holding them for ransom. Even more threatening from the government's standpoint is the widespread support won by the 70,000-member Popular Revolutionary...
Nitpicking aside, flaws like these cast doubt on the most basic premise of his book. The Third World War is a call to rearmament, a shrill blast of the trumpet for Western governments to boost their military expenditures now, before it's too late and the crawling armies of Bolshevism engulf what Hackett calls "the free nations of the Western world." He believes the advent of "flexible response" military policies in the sixties--abandoning automatic massive nuclear retaliation in favor of both conventional and nuclear forces--makes land war in Europe a distinct possibility over the next decade...
Otherwise, Spartakiad was Olympiad without the crowds. The scale of the competition equals that of the Olympics, though several important 1980 facilities are not yet in operation. The official Olympic symbol, a cute bear cub named Misha, made its debut. With only a handful of Western tourists in Moscow last week, the city's life-support systems were not severely tested. But Soviet patience was, largely by Western journalists complaining about stalled visas, confusing event schedules and scoreboards that used the Cyrillic alphabet. Fed up, a Soviet official denied that Spartakiad was a "dress rehearsal" for the Olympics, just...
...travel and ticket arrangements are being handled by the Russian Travel Bureau, an American-owned firm in New York.) The tour prices-$1,550 for 15 days, $1,850 for 22 days-include most meals, sightseeing entertainment and "first class" accommodations, which are far less opulent than their typical Western equivalents. Tickets to Olympic events, which cost anywhere from $3 to $38, are extra...