Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranked and undefeated Houston Cougars smashed Texas Christian 103-68 to capture the NCAA midwest regional title. The Bruins were equally impressive crushing Santa Clara 87-66 in routine fashion to win the western regional title...
...sixth Rose Bowl game in history emerged as a battle "to prove whether the prowess of western football is a fact or a myth," according to pre-game stories in the Los Angeles Examiner...
Four Myths. The heart of the classic western, says Fiedler, lies in the encounter between White Man and Red Man, "that utter stranger for whom our New World is an Old Home." In the model western, the meeting either changes the White Man into the kind of cultural half-breed typified by James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo, or results in the destruction of the Indian...
Remove the Red Man and the basis for the classic western withers...
...evocations of a West long since tamed in a net of superhighways, and the truer, mythological West of rebirth and renewal that is always in the future. "The real opposite of nostalgic," he says, "is psychedelic, the reverse of remembering is hallucinating, which means that, insofar as the New Western is truly New, it, too, must be psychedelic." So the Red Man reappears, bearing his gifts of marijuana and peyote that threaten 20th century values in much the same way as the white man's whisky threatened the Indian way of life. The New West then...