Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indonesia has recently prohibited a contest to choose a Miss Indonesia for the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, Calif., after a leftist newspaper complained that she would be "manhandled and ogled at." In Bandung, Western movies are banned because they tend to show "racial discrimination" and provoke "adventurous sentiments." Hula-Hoops, about to catch on belatedly, were banned as sexually provocative...
Verbal Contact. Prime Minister Koirala is articulately Western in thought (his favorite author: French Novelist Albert Camus) and has an informal ability to get things done that is rare in inefficient Nepal. A political opponent says: "He keeps his word; that's what counts most." The Prime Minister can expect continuing help from India in money and technicians because Nepal, on the border of Tibet, is a strategic mountain barrier to Red Chinese expansion. The U.S. is supporting road-building projects, developing civil aviation, and setting up a radio communication net to bring Katmandu into verbal contact with...
...With Machetes." Castro more and more needs a strong political army because his half-baked reform ideas, skillfully shaped by Communists, are dividing Cuba along class-struggle lines. Last week bands of oppositionists were reported gathering in the hills of eastern Oriente and western Pinar del Rio provinces, and there were large troop movements up and down the island...
...Whisky per tutti"), audiences in Colorado's Red Rocks Theater last week happily lapped it up. Occasion: a Colorado Centennial production of Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West, staged in the natural sandstone Red Rocks amphitheater with all the flamboyance of a wide-screen western...
...before the curtain, carpenters hustled about frantically shoring up scenery. But on opening night, Puccini's grand old horse opera went off with scarcely a hitch, moved a capacity audience to reverberating applause. The heroes of the evening, in the eyes of Director Graf, were without question the Western quarter horses. "They don't sing, they don't argue, they take directions," said he, "and they act very well...