Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much heavier, called the presidency "splendid misery." Yet today, in a typical year, Dwight Eisenhower may sign 750 bills, send 40,000 promotions and appointments to Congress, and take the responsibility for a budget that fills 1,100 small-print pages. Not only is he expected to lead Western diplomacy, guide the nation's domestic affairs and entertain ceremoniously, but he must perform such assorted functions as approving the U.S. Navy Band's concert tours, dealing with dismissals from the Naval Academy and chatting with boy scouts...
Though "unskilled and white collar workers are certainly underprivileged," he felt that by 1970 the standard of living would equal that of Western Germany, and the present inadequate housing conditions would be reasonably improved...
Cavalcade was born last spring when KTTV President Richard A. Moore astonished the Western Association of National Advertisers by offering prime time for a 13-week program of commercials -and offered to foot the bill himself. Moore was delighted by the association's flood of entries for the show, became more "convinced than ever that some of the most creative material on television today is contained within the commercials...
Watching from the Raja's balcony, the librarian of the Jagannath Temple turned to a Western visitor: "To witness the Lord of Lords on the Holy Car," he said, "guarantees the beholder eternal beatitude and absorption in the Supreme Being...
...Anatomy of a Moral, 18 casual essays written for two of Belgrade's leading journals when Djilas was still the party's Red-haired boy. The speculations begin innocently enough: a yawningly orthodor insistence that Yugoslavia must wiggle between the traps of Stalinist "bureaucratism" and "decadent" Western capitalism. But as the articles progress. Djilas begins to weaken in the marrow of his own faith; complaint turns to critique as he demands such subversive luxuries as free speech and free elections, equality of all before...