Word: westernizes
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...book with research or theory. Rather, Naipaul’s art of character and his attention to detail only serve to enrich the work. At the outset, Naipaul sets himself to the task of investigating Africa and its politics through its people and their experiences. He laments the myopic Western focus on African politicians, not Africans themselves, “The book will arise, I hope, out of my own concerns—or, if you prefer, obsessions. What do terms like ‘liberation,’ ‘revolution,’ ‘socialism...
...their own artistic ambitions and cultural experiences. “I had a feeling of keen disappointment,” Charles noted. “I wanted to be an artist.” This aesthetic drive was complemented by the influence of Japanese art, which entered the Western consciousness after Japan ended its isolationism and figured into every major Greene project after the 1904 design of the Adelaide A. Tichenor commission. But the striking thing about the firm of Greene and Greene was not the personality that the brothers injected into their designs—which extended beyond residences...
...From its opening moments, “Fat City” vaults the pretense of the so-called ‘boxing novel’—then a genre unto itself and at the time one as viable as the eminently popular ‘western novel’—and leaves it far behind. In a way, these first lines do more to circumscribe the western genre than they do the boxing genre. Almost instantly, Gardener crystallizes the already-swelling malaise taking hold of the national consciousness in the decline of the 60s counterculture, mediated...
...months after violent protests, allegations of new attacks in the troubled western Chinese city of Urumqi touched off huge demonstrations on Sept. 3, with residents gathering in the city center to demand the government improve public security. Some in the crowd, estimated by official media to be in the tens of thousands, called for the resignation of Wang Lequan, the longstanding Communist Party chief of the Xinjiang region, news services reported. While the details of the unrest were bizarre - 21 people were arrested on suspicion of pricking pedestrians with tainted needles, according to state media - the return of unrest...
Instead of focusing solely on the major nations, Manela studies how smaller and non-Western countries responded to and influenced the foreign policies of the larger nations, said Cohen...