Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome last week, 400 Roman Catholic employers from Western Europe and Canada prepared to go home, carrying with them some memorable advice from Pope Pius XII. Delegates to the first international congress of UNIAPAC (International Union of Catholic Employers' Associations), they had heard the Pope deliver one of his clearest and most important statements to date on economic and social affairs...
...dramatic victory of the Western Powers at Berlin, and in the catastrophic defeats in Asia, Greece's victories and defeats in the war with communism had been all but forgotten by the West. Yet it was in Greece that the U.S. first publicly took a stand in aggressive resistance to the Red tide. Van Fleet holds a vital flank position in the battle between communism and the West. Says he: "This war in Greece is a first-class war of international communism. It's a war of annihilation with no respect for the rules...
...bishop went on. The chief obstacles before mankind at the present time, he cried, are "overpopulation and starvation," rather than "racialism and war." He blamed this sorry state of affairs on "the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church and the need for cannon fodder affirmed by the new Western religions of nationalism [which] are producing overpopulation in Western civilization...
...troubled: his unruly hair kept tumbling into his eyes. Could Linz Bros, make Toto happy, too? It could, indeed. Last week, having fixed Toto's bangs with a set of silver barrettes (and a $250 diamond-studded white-gold set for Sundays), Linz Bros, was designing a Western-style dog collar for De Blanco's approval. It would have ruby-studded gold and silver buckles...
Descriptions of Isaiah Berlin range from "the most brilliant man in the Western World" to "the wittiest" to "the best conversationalist." You have an uncomprehending respect for people who so describe him for you feel they belong to the inner circle, the practiced. The outsider suspects the significance of the torrent of Oxford language which pours forth from this round and rumpled gentleman but seldom succeeds in keeping up with his pace. Berlin himself observes that his audiences "first struggle desperately but then sink under, staring with glazed eyes." One intense lady became so desperate that she finally interrupted...