Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shroud of terror and darkness that has enveloped Cambodia ever since it fell to the Communist Khmer Rouge in April 1975 lifted slightly last week, but in a way that was at once tragic and bizarre. After a three-year refusal by Cambodia's new rulers to admit Western news correspondents to Democratic Kampuchea-as Cambodia now calls itself-two American reporters, Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Elizabeth Becker of the Washington Post, returned to the U.S. with detailed accounts of a two-week visit. A third member of their party, British Scholar Malcolm Caldwell...
There is no front-running candidate, however, and any of the eight on the Council of the Revolution, or even an outsider, could finally emerge as Algeria's new leader. Still, Western experts were focusing on several possible contenders, and Bitat was not among them. The leaders: Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 41, an agile, Westernized diplomat; Colonel Ahmed Bencherif, 51, former commandant of the national gendarmerie and now Water Resources Minister, and Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui, 46, a devout Muslim and pro-Soviet politician who is currently running the F.L.N. Outside the council, the name most often mentioned...
...anyone doubts the potential for export, let him consider the case of China. Not long ago, that market seemed hermetically closed. Now Western businessmen dream of selling just one handkerchief to each of the 1 billion Chinese; that would be enough to keep two or more big textile plants rolling for a year. Lyet got onto that new frontier rather early. He visited the Middle Kingdom more than a year ago, and soon thereafter Peking placed with Sperry one of its first significant orders for Western computers...
...first sign of it, not much better than the original malaise, was "historicism,"-the rich, beautiful prose of corporate style, achieved with acres of white marble that somehow always ended up looking like plastic laminate. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art by William Pereira is an early Western example of the genre; its equivalent on the East Coast was Lincoln Center in Manhattan, a large, poor parody of Michelangelo's Campidoglio in Rome, designed by Wallace Harrison, Max Abramovitz and by Philip Johnson, whose building was the New York State Theater. All the historical allusions in this corporate style...
...lethargic, sloppy Harvard team, still suffering from the after-effects of a 15-day Western roadtrip, which dropped back-to-back contests against Penn, Friday night, 103-77, and Princeton, Saturday night...