Word: westerner
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While the Glee Club and IGP performed, HACIA sponsored its annual government simulation conference for high school students throughout the Western hemisphere. The group's focus is Latin America...
Excluding a few bright lights of free thought in Western history, the racial and gender exclusivity of European societies has been guarded for centuries behind a bastion of "moral" reasoning. One need only look at our notion of miscegenation, for example, to see how such concepts as racial intermarriage were considered radically immoral aberrations of depraved individuals, or, for a more proximate example, the hate-laced editorials in the very pages of the Harvard Crimson against the granting of lending privileges to Radcliffe students wishing to use Lamont Library just a few decades...
Levi says that for some years he believed "the real pulp" of Buddhist religious in America were the more Western versions "with their new take on religion." The thought of traditional meditation did not occur to him until he took a class on Buddhism...
...Commencement, Secretary of StateGeorge C. Marshall outlined plans for America'spostwar economic rescue of Western Europe, nowknown as the Marshall Plan...
...hotels, smoke, neon, martinis, and danger"; how they can produce this effect with two people and a banjo is a question for the ages. Another site features musical acts from the Vancouver area; this month keep an ear out for COAL, which claims to be the only "ethereal psychedelic western noir lounge act" around, perhaps because no other bands have any idea what the hell that means. And for the gritty, hard-core beach-boy in all of us, there's the Del-fi Records web page, home of original "spy-and-surf noir" bands like the El Camino...