Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their child, whom they so desperately wanted, will never have a chance at a normal childhood or even adulthood. They have degraded and institutionalized the child, and for that act, not for their act of medically assisted birth, the Browns should be viewed as symbols of the degeneration of Western morals...
They are off. Not out of their minds exactly but driven, obsessed. There are at least 25 million of them right now, mostly prosperous Western Europeans, huddled like refugees on the packed fringes of the Mediterranean. They are taking part in a ritual, exercising a civil right, and in the process hungrily consummating a winter's yearnings. The summer vacation season is upon them, draining the gray, rainy cities of the north, flooding the beaches of Spain's Costa del Sol, France's Côte d'Azur, Italy's Capri and the Greek islands...
...Comoros, time may be running out for the white adventurers. Denard's prominence has made the Comorans outcasts in black Africa. When Comoran diplomats showed up at the recent summit meeting of the Organization for African Unity, they were branded the "Denard delegation" and unceremoniously thrown out. Western nations that would like to help the Comoros are reluctant to extend aid to a nation dominated by a pack of hired guns. Says a Comoran official: "Our biggest problem now is how to get the mercenaries out and re-establish relations with the rest of Africa...
...worldwide survey by TIME correspondents last week showed that Paul's increased attentiveness to areas beyond the Western democracies has been paralleled by increasing church vigor in those areas. In the First World, attendance at Mass fell dramatically and a shortage of priests afflicted nation after nation during Paul's pontificate. Ideological acrimony still abounds. But Catholicism is reviving in Communist Eastern Europe, the Catholic population in Africa has grown 111% (to 52 million) during the Pauline era, and Latin America enjoys signs of resurgence after a difficult period. The reason? Perhaps squabbles over doctrine and church reform appear less...
...issue also arose last month, when the African bishops' symposium issued moral denunciations of governments that are built upon lies, intolerance, political murders and "shameful enrichment of a small class at the expense of the broad masses." Above all, a Pope must continue to exemplify the anguish of Western Christians over the suffering of the world's poor ?as Paul did so eloquently?whether or not he is able to find a new way to address the birth control problem...