Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Paul opposes Western consumerism and Marxist economic determinism because they exalt materialism at the expense of the spirit and undermine the dignity of the individual human being, established for all time by Jesus Christ's redeeming death on the cross: "[Man] cannot become the slave of things, the slave of economic systems, the slave of production," he writes...
...they even joke about it. They say that they have piped out their black gold but the paper money they have accumulated in return for it has suffered from the decline of the dollar. They are worried about the shakiness of the international monetary system and of some Western banks in which they have put their money...
...merits of this mindset, it is deeply disturbing to experts on Arabia−and to none more than Minos Zombanakis, a Crete-born and Harvard-educated banker who straddles two worlds. For over 20 years, Zombanakis, 52, has been advising Arabs and Iranians on how to deal with Western executives, and vice versa. He knows the Saudis about as well as any Westerner can. He ranges far from his elegant London offices, where he has been the international chief for a series of American banks: initially Manufacturers Hanover, then First Boston, now Blyth Eastman Dillon...
Seiji Ozawa dreams big. "I am Japanese," he says. "But I was born in China. Somehow I became a Western musician. My dream has been to come to China, me and the Boston Symphony, to play and teach and learn." Last week a Pan Am 747 with 157 people and 35,000 Ibs. of baggage, musical instruments and equipment touched down in Shanghai. B.S.O. Conductor Ozawa hurled himself forward to meet the weary orchestra, which he had preceded into the country...
...tour was expensive ($650,000 put up by corporations, and a third of that by Coca-Cola), and pitifully brief. But last week it seemed as if the Chinese thought the Boston Symphony Orchestra had brought Western classical music intact off their jet. The musicians left behind sets of gut strings, pounds of musical scores and manuscript paper. They also promised to find a way to get some Chinese students to next summer's festival at Tanglewood. Ozawa was careful to point out that this would be a good bargain for both: "Americans need to see the intensity...