Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western scholars should pay closer attention to Afro-American literature because of the cultural experience of oppression which it uniquely articulates, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies said last night at the Cambridge Forum...
This experience forms part of "another aesthetic in the world," which differs from the "Euro-centric" aesthetic of western literature in its humanistic values and its claim that art has a social responsibility to humanity, Cudjoe said...
...Western scholars have neglected Afro-American literature, considering "even the most pedantic and empty scholarship" more important. Cudjoe said. Scholars should attempt to integrate Afro-American literature into their understanding of American culture, he added...
...became his company's editor in chief at 17. At first he followed the trends of popular movies: if cowboy films were big, he turned out western comics; if crime dramas were packing them in, well, he wrote cops-and-robbers stories. In the early '60s though, Lee got bored and began creating his own characters. The result: superheroes with personality as well as power, saviors who suffered from human frailties...
...senses of the word, immaterial. Science and religion were apples and oranges. So the pact said: render unto apples the things that are Caesar's, and unto oranges the things that are God's. Just as the Maya kept two calendars, one profane and one priestly, so Western science and religion fell into two different conceptions of the universe, two different vocabularies...