Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked at the world, saw that it was not perfect, and plugged in the easiest wrong answers. Protest songs and rock music are hardly decadent--they represent a social and artistic commitment to our world. They, not "John Henry" are the songs of us folk, as hip Country and Western groups. Sure, folk music is often great and gutsy. But the simplistic Romantic anti-sellout sentiment it symbolizes in this play really equals the willful alienation of Sankey's hero, who speaks to no one, either in his stage world or in the audience world. An individual standing alone against...
...same as the one that Dr. Radhakrishnan, ex-President of India, has been advocating for several years. It may be that Governor Rockefeller and Dr. Radhakrishnan arrived at this plan independently. If so, it strengthens the case for the plan in that two independent sources-one Eastern and one Western-reviewing the same facts, came to the same conclusions. Dr. Radhakrishnan told me that Russia, Czechoslovakia, Japan and the U.S. expressed their willingness to accept the plan. China, characteristically, was not willing...
...spirit of the country and the people. "I just took off," cabled Forbath, "reporting to no authority, dropping in anywhere. The people were warm, open, unafraid, though I was a capitalistic journalist whom most people had been taught for two decades to regard as little better than a Western spy." This time, being from the West was something of an advantage, and Forbath was happy to be offered not only tea by the Russians but the clear, potent and ever-present slivovice that Czechoslovaks lavish on their guests...
...Episcopal layman, McGaw is a staff member of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in La Jolla, Calif. He also heads an experimental worship program involving 14 Southern California Protestant ministers and two Roman Catholic priests who use touch-and-tell techniques in their own services and gather periodically to compare the results...
...stuffed shirt still around, for example, a freer spirit at the next desk is likely to be wearing a striped or even a paisley one. "Business is permitting far more latitude in dress than it did five years ago," says Sherrie Rubin, a field representative for Los Angeles' Western Girl Inc. employment agency...