Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regardless of our low opinion of the dictator, his visit may be a very important part of our last civilized chance to work out the survival of the human race. Every year that we can talk instead of shoot, the U.S.S.R. moves inevitably toward Western civilization...
...were not enough for the real Eisenhower charm to encompass the Western Hemisphere, now Artist Wyeth has dipped his brush in molten gold and created a veritable...
...Defense Neil McElroy, who last May postponed his leave-taking after the death of Assistant Secretary Donald Quarles. McElroy, who spent much of his 27 months in office on far-ranging inspection tours, will make time to get just one more trip under his belt-to Alaska, Honolulu, the western Pacific and the Orient-before slipping back in late December to Procter & Gamble...
...with those words, one reaches the self-contradictory heart of Harvard unbelief--as also in the atheist admiration of Jesus and the agnostic appreciation of the Church. The undergraduate skeptic seems to have forgotten what was the rock on which the Western moral structure has rested for two millenia, forgotten from what book his ethical principles originally sprang, in Whose name meaning and purpose have overtly or covertly been found in life since time immemorial, and at Whose omnipotent behest good and evil were first thought to be distinguished and have been held in rigid antithesis ever since...
George Orwell once observed that the death of the soul, Western civilization's renunciation of the belief in immortality, makes politics immensely the more serious; it could be the spur to a radicalism almost frenetic, hysterical, insane--though Nietzsche's phrase seems more appropriate: "a higher history than all history hitherto." The orthodox have always talked as if losing the hope of immortality would trivialize or vitiate the worth of life altogether. But their opponents might well reply that quite the opposite is true: eternity is only "shortened," as it were--the fate of one's soul, one's hopes...