Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, the oil producing countries of the world discovered that they could control the world economy by raising the price of the one commodity they had that the Western nations needed...
...left to Ralph Ellison to develop the Afro-American in all of his indivisible and invisible wholeness. In the tradition of the classical epic of Western literature, an unnamed protagonist, neither naturalist demigod nor realist picaresque, sets out on a journey on which depends the future of his race or his nation. He sets out to achieve his identity in the most widely accepted tradition of Western literature: the journey. From the Odyssey to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, amidst the background of superhuman danger, virtue came in the struggle of the hero and his triumph over evil forces...
...pieced together his clothes with safety pins, that device became the emblem of an entire subculture. He realized that old age would be a breach of decorum--that, like Keith Moon, he could never grow old. Sid Vicious was to rock and roll what Winston Churchill was to Western democracy, and to many of us there was not a hell of a difference in scale. John Kifner, in his often cruel and amazingly obtuse obituary in the New York Times, wrote. "Sid Vicious played electric bass and vomited," as if that epigraph could contain his short life. It was more...
...problem that will be solved only when musicians can hear more Western ensembles and study with teachers trained in a different idiom. For now, China's artistic world is celebrating the fall of the Gang of Four. Pipa Player Liu has a lively repertoire again; during the cultural crackdown, he played in the Peking Philharmonic, which could perform exactly nine works...
...good a painter was she? By the standards of a Matisse, not very; beside most "primitive" Western artists, however, she was a spry old wonder. Most primitive art today is a mimicry of that unmediated, clumsy freshness of vision that once recreated itself, beyond style, in each true nai'f. But in a world saturated by print and photography, it is difficult to be a nai'f; art is too available. Grandma Moses was not un touched by commerce, but nobody could doubt the integrity of her work or the delicacy of her imagination. She was a graceful...