Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, Secretary of Education William Bennett labelled the Core Curriculum a "smorgasbord." He advocated a more structured plan which would steep undergraduates in numerous courses covering "The classical and Jewish-Christian heritage, the roots of American and European History...and the great works of Western art and literature...
Likewise, on April 18, 1988, he attacked a Stanford decision to replace its Western Cultures requirement with a new mandatory course, "Cultures, Ideas, and Values," which is more global in scope. The California university plans to reduce the number of great works covered by the required freshman course from six to 15 in 1989, eliminating such seminal writers as Shakespeare, Descartes, and Dostoevsky. These pieces will be replaced by works by and concerning women, Blacks, and Asians, in a noble effort to expose American students to different, non-white male perspectives and cultures...
...role in masterminding a large number of P.L.O. terror attacks over the years. Yet al- Wazir's death was also intended to decapitate the intifadeh, the five- month- old uprising that has rocked the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank. As head of the P.L.O.'s "western-sector command," he was in charge of the organization's support for the rebellion. Killing him, the Israelis believed, would deal the uprising a serious blow...
...short, Garner is perfectly cast as a gracefully aging Wyatt Earp in Writer-Director Blake Edwards' curiously graceless evocation of a bygone Hollywood age. The frontier marshal comes to town, at the end of the silent era, to act as technical adviser on a western in which Cowboy Star Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) is supposed to play him in his younger days...
...literal a gift from the gods to him as Valhalla had been to Wagner. Gauguin was no anthropologist but a romantic looking for pity and terror among the vestiges of a lost Golden Age. Certainly his flight to the Marquesas was inspired by a wide reaction against Western cultural surfeit, against an industrial France fixated on money and "development." But the life he forged from his discontents, though not without moments of bathos, was deeply courageous. He tried what others in the Paris cafes only talked about...