Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months a torrent of science propaganda has sluiced from Moscow's presses. Murky with Marxist doubletalk, it praises Soviet science, denounces Western science as the tool of capitalism and the slave of doctrinal errors, such as "idealism" and "formalism." Along with the orchids for Russia and brickbats for the West go long polemic discourses on such subjects as genetics and quantum mechanics. Most of it is far above the heads of the Russian (or any other) general public...
Professor Alfred G. Fisk, leader of the San Francisco group, said that he "would be more than glad to have Harvard facfulty and graduate students" apply to him for places on the 22-man study tour. The trip will cover western Europe except for Spain, Norway, and the Benelux nations, leaving from New York June 27 or July...
...series of forums and talks will approach the topic from three geographical groupings: western Europe, the Near East, and the Far East. The opening talk for the two day conference will be a follow-up on E.R.P. by Edward Mason, Dean of Littauer School of Public Administration...
...River. Howard Hawks's rattling good western, with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME...
...Author Davenport, a costume and stage designer, is a first-rate researcher, and her chief sources are the western world's painting and sculpture. Such painters as Bruegel, Hogarth and Carpaccio, who filled their canvases with a crowd of characters and worked in every last detail of period settings, are her richest gold mines...