Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having had the opportunity to see West Point from "the inside" my impressions are offered as graphically as possible-the more so by reason of the direct contrast with Harvard. Where this university is noted for its middle western intellectualism and all-round liberalism and even a fair amount of social consciousness, West Point represents the opposite in its democracy where money, name, or position mean literally nothing...
...possible therefore to generalize about West Point. For instance good health, high mental capacity and moral endurance are universal among the cadets. The general air of enthusiasm so noticeable at games is really Western in attitude-they are religiously keen about the corps and all its activities. Similarly the joy afforded by a soda or a movie seems naive to us but such judgement is done on a purely comparative basis...
...Approved a joint resolution providing $2,000,000 to fight grasshoppers in western States...
Slim, dark Artist Yawalkar, 23, belongs to neither of the schools into which Indian art is mainly divided: Oriental tradition and imitative academicism. His greatest admiration is for van Gogh. His idea is to combine the flowing designs and symbolism of Indian art with a strong Western technique. Into many of the paintings shown last week at Manhattan's Delphic Studios he had mixed so much diluted Western impressionism that nothing Indian was left but subject matter. Others seemed purely Oriental. But occasionally it seemed as if Artist Yawalkar might yet use Western art as well as Gauguin...
What is the role of Japan in the world of tomorrow? Can the nation which seems destined to rule an empire in the East be ignored by western statesmen? What of Spain? Will she ever regain her position as a power in Europe? And if so, where will her support be placed? What of America? What of the colossus of the West, the nation still thinking in terms of nineteenth century isolation, still shrinking from the cold, harsh realities of world politics...