Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Indian, sallow, passive and alienated. Salim's lethargy reflects his anxiety about the ultimate, senseless violence. As the president's forces creep deeper into the interior, Salim becomes more desperate. He tries twice to rouse himself, via an affair and a flight to London where illusions of a Western civilized arcadia lie. But neither succeeds as a safety-value. Salim renounces all hope and returns to Africa, only to find that the violent abyss has widened...
...money will be given to five liberation groups recognized by the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity: the Zimbabwe African National Union, the Zimbabwe African People's Union, the South Western African Peoples' Organization (Namibia), and the African National Congress and the Pan African Congress and the Pan African Congress (South Africa...
...money will be given to five liberation groups recognized by the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity: the Zimbabwe African National Union, the Zimbabwe African People's Union, the South Western African Peoples' Organization (Namibia), and the African National Congress and the Pan African Congress and the Pan African Congress (South Africa...
Aron does not fret over the specifics of the East-West strategic arms controversy. What he most fears is a loss of nerve among the Western democracies, resulting from a tenacious feeling of inferiority to the Soviet system. Many American analysts would disagree, believing that the U.S. has become complacent because of its sense of military superiority to the U.S.S.R. But Aron maintains that Westerners sometimes feel that the Soviet leaders "possess an infernal machine capable of blowing capitalism sky-high or else some virtually infallible instrument for guiding their strategy." This crisis of confidence has been accelerated in Europe...
...proletariat is drawn to ... strong, bright and clear forms, to what is complete and has definite meaning." This was probably meant to encourage agitprop poster design. The artists, however, took it as a stamp of approval for cubo-futurism, suprematism, constructivism and the other isms that the ferment of Western art had helped set off. In their enthusiasm to create a new culture that would be a synthesis of modernist fragmentation, folk art and dialectical materialism, the artists got more from looking at Lenin's works than he did from theirs. "I do not understand them," Lenin complained...