Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mark Medoff's drama takes place in a small western town in the late '60s and explores the illusions and alienation of American life. Medoff's vision is a dark one, and his play operates on a cynical, pessimistic energy. His characters are all trapped and they can't figure out how to escape. Medoff's message is that they never will. Attendant on this basic theme are chilling caricatures of conventional morality, marriage and love, as well as a wholesale shredding of the notion that human dignity has any meaning. The play depends heavily on characterization, and one senses...
...throng of Western newsmen and Soviet reporters (who have yet to report the big event in Moscow's Russian-language papers) looked on as the newlyweds departed. The wedding itself was attended by only eleven guests, none of whom were from the bride's family. Like other members of the tight-knit international shipping community, they are uncertain what impact the marriage will have on the $500 million Onassis fleet, in which Christina has a 48% interest. (The rest is held by the Monte Carlo-based Alexander Onassis Foundation, which is run by a troika...
Paul was at his best on these trips, smiling often and enjoying particularly the unconventional displays of piety that greeted him in the Third World. In Western Samoa in 1970, he stood before an outdoor altar in the blazing sun while eight sarong-draped men came forward, bearing on their shoulders an immense 400-Ib. pig, a traditional Samoan gift. In Uganda he was delighted by a platoon of blue-haltered, red-skirted dancing girls who met the papal jet in Kampala. More somberly, especially in his Third World visits, Paul made a point of seeking out the poorest neighborhoods...
...medium-size carriers are trying to line up merger partners to keep from being swallowed up by the big airlines if and when deregulation goes through. Texas International is trying to take over National. Defensive linkups are also planned by Southern and North Central as well as Continental and Western. Says one worried Western executive: "To us, United Air Lines seems just like a big cougar perched on a rock waiting to pounce...
...competing needs for government secrecy and the public right to know have long posed a dilemma for Western democracies. In the U.S., the most recent example is the case of Frank Snepp, the former CIA agent who was ordered by a federal judge last June to turn over to the Government any "ill-gotten gains" (at least $60,000 so far) from Decent Interval, his book charging the CIA with botching the evacuation of Saigon. The Government argued that Snepp jeopardized future intelligence operations by violating his secrecy oath; Snepp's defenders saw a discouraging precedent for future "whistle...