Word: westerner
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...ever there was a monument to the Western Canon, Paine Hall is it. High above the audience, in proud brass letters, the names of the Great Composers--Beethoven, Schubert, Bach--remind us that we are in a temple of culture, to be enlightened by the best music from the best minds in history. The literal presence of these great names only emphasized the question posed by last Sunday's concert: is that tradition still alive, and does John Harbison belong...
...this not as someone who is necessarily an actively religious person,...but because I think Luther's influence, both directly and indirectly, had a more transforming effect on Western civilization than anyone else that I can think of," Patterson said...
...elections, they are pursuing policies of privatization and market economics, and they are clamoring for membership in both NATO and the European Union. "Poland will never go back from the road of reform and democracy," Kwasniewski pledged, adding that he would move ahead with market reforms and continue the Western-oriented foreign policy established by Walesa. "I am prepared to bet that within five years Poland will be a member of NATO with Kwasniewski as President...
Hill's largest invention, one entirely in keeping with his apparent determination to make the most radically revisionist western ever, is a backstory shared by Wild Bill and Jack McCall (David Arquette), who history teaches us brought the gunman's career to an end by shooting him in the back. Seems that the former loved and rather crassly left a decent woman named Susannah Moore (the lovely Diane Lane). Seems McCall is her child by a previous liaison. Seems Hill has seen too many movies in which young western gunmen are anachronistically portrayed as if they were modern juvenile delinquents...
Giving President Lech Walesa what he described as "a slap on the cheek," Polish voters elected his challenger, Alexander Kwasniewski, with 51.7% of the vote. A former communist, Kwasniewski, 41, campaigned as a pro-Western, reform-minded Social Democrat. Said he: "The divisions between those who are former communists and those who were with Solidarity are not so important outside the intellectual circles of Warsaw...