Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ominous emulation, Belgian students last week seized the university in Brussels, and New Left students in England placed the black flag of anarchy atop the London School of Economics. Warned the West German weekly Rheinischer Merkur: "France does not stand outside the political streams and conflicts of the Western world. The call for reform in Paris is just as loud as we hear it in Bonn, in Rome or in Madrid. Flash fires threat en every country...
...have ever stormed a barricade, none of them have ever formulated large-scale political programs. If you look at some of these people politically, you can imagine what emerges. But I don't care. And I suppose I respect the right of someone to say, "You are a frivolous Western liberal who for all your involvement is never fundamentally going to change this society...
...worked with, I have found that they are perhaps more accepting of my life than I am of it. I think we live with guilt, we live with our Puritan heritage, we live with all of the self-derogation and self-assault that goes with complicated middle-class Western life...
...thus a welcome boost to Ceauşescu, whose position in the Soviet-dominated camp is becoming increasingly isolated. While De Gaulle seeks to broaden his contacts in Eastern Europe, Ceauşescu hopes for more tangible economic and political results from the visit, such as greater access to Western technology and the promise of closer ties with the West...
...friend Composer John Cage, had nothing to do with music. At a small table downstage left sat Cage and Actor David Vaughan in dinner jackets, sipping champagne while they read humorous snippets and anecdotes from Cage's writings ("When Gandhi was asked what he thought about Western civilization, he said, 'It would be nice' "). The text had no clear connection with the skittery maneuvers that Cunningham & Co. were carrying out onstage, and none of it had any bearing on how to pass, kick, fall or run with anything. But everyone seemed to be having a ball...