Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL (four volumes), edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. A remarkable record of the political and intellectual history of Western Europe during the '30s and '40s by the author of Animal Farm...
...found your Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing" [Nov. 15], most interesting. There is no doubt that in the Western world the tradition of publicly conceding defeat to a political opponent has been well established. I think Americans have reached a high point of civilization by having made this beautiful and courageous practice an important part of their way of life...
...reach in the mid '60s, has been set back by the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. As a new Administration prepares to take power, Americans are questioning for the first time in a generation their basic role in the world community. Though the signs of plenty abound throughout the Western world, the chronic international money crisis threatens to produce political as well as fiscal instability for millions (see THE WORLD...
...acre land grant, Andalusian settlers turned their arid Tierra Amarilla into a grazing empire that exists today as New Mexico's Rio Arriba county. Bigger than Connecticut and almost as inaccessible as Tibet, the area sprawls southward from the Colorado Rockies to atomic-age Los Alamos. Its western reaches contain the licarilla Apache reservation, and to the east loom the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where at Easter fanatical Pen-itentes used to re-enact the Crucifixion by nailing a member of their sect to the cross. For the Spaniards who once were Rio Arriba's lords, life...
...stability of France's currency, De Gaulle loftily dismissed the possibility of the franc's devaluation as "the worst absurdity." Almost no one believed him. Speculation against the franc continued to mount until it neared crisis proportions, threatening to unbalance the entire, delicate mobile of the Western monetary system. The money managers and bankers of Europe and the U.S. assembled in Bonn in an emergency session, and solemnly rendered collective judgment that the franc must be devalued. The French braced for the worst, and the money men in capitals around the world prepared for the myriad adjustments...