Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That irreconcilable difference in opinion was surely the big reason why Western ears have a hard time listening to Solzhenitsyn and taking his prophecies seriously...
...committees will continue this year the process of creating the Core, which began in 1975 when Dean Rosovsky called for a review of the old General Education program. Begun in the '40s when a liberal education was expected to, as Whitlock says, "preserve and pass on western traditions and culture," the Gen Ed. program lost much of its cohesiveness in the '60s when a proliferation of courses added titles to the catalog that had less and less reference to the original goals of the program...
...first hours that President Carter was back at his White House desk from his Western retreat, he was briefed on the legislative tangles his natural gas bill had encountered. At least two or three times, a faraway look came into his eyes and he chuckled, "I wish that I was back on the Salmon River...
Pitchford's story is sad and scarcely unfamiliar. She and her boyfriend, Dwight Mundy, 26, both students at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, were talking about getting married. But Pitchford was afraid to tell Mundy she was pregnant. When she did he told her he did not want the child. On June 8 they traveled to Louisville to find a clinic that would perform an abortion. None would handle a pregnancy beyond 18 weeks. In the bathroom of their hotel room, Pitchford inserted a six-inch knitting needle into her uterus. "I just wasn't thinking rationally...
...which the Shah normally transports his most honored guests. But otherwise the visit passed uneventfully, with talks about cultural exchanges and expanded trade. Though the subject was not announced, the two leaders undoubtedly discussed something else that concerns them both: the Soviet presence on Iran's borders. Western observers noted that Hua was accompanied to Tehran by several ranking Chinese military officials who had not been with him on his stopovers in Europe...