Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Europe. Never before have so many shared in such prosperity. The recession is over: in France, a record 102,820 cars were produced in February; Germany has 2,670,000 TV sets. One result: in only France and Italy are Communist parties still strong, and in neither do they have an effective say in the country's policy. The new six-nation Common Market promises revolutionary business opportunities for a market of 166 million people...
...mind to doubt a single line of it. In 1959, Peking had declared, the nation's farms would outproduce by 40% even last year's staggering claim of 375 million tons of grain, which was already said to be nearly double the output of 1957. Western specialists were inclined to view this as exaggeration piled upon exaggeration (TIME, Dec. 1 et seq.), but still they were impressed...
...people of Canada over whom you reign." Then, with a slight grin, he continued: "Because we are in this beautiful part of Canada where French is principally spoken [the Queen had delivered part of her speech in French], will you permit me a single halting sentence of my Western prairie brand of that language -Je suis tres heureux de me retrouver parmi vous au Canada" (I am very happy to be with you in Canada again...
...semieducated cliques, Snow concludes, perhaps the more dangerous are the nonscientific intellectuals. It is they who still manage the Western world, without any real understanding of the power at their command. Their ignorance began in the industrial revolution, and has graver consequences by the year. The English university "trained its young men for administration, for the Indian Empire, for the purpose of perpetuating the culture itself, but never in any circumstances to equip them to understand the revolution or take part in it ... The academics had nothing to do with the industrial revolution; as Corrie, the old Master of Jesus...
...gains of industrialization-"the base of our social hope"-are still being scorned by Western intellectuals. And the West's pure scientists have been just as "dimwitted" toward its productive engineers: "Their instinct . . . was to take it for granted that applied science was an occupation for second-rate minds...