Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rudi" Dutschke and France's "Red Danny" Cohn-Bendit openly espouse anarchy. "In theory," says West German Political Scientist Wolfgang Abendroth, "the students are a species of Marxists, but in practice they are anarchists." Not since the anarchist surge in the Spanish Civil War has the Western world seen a movement so enthusiastically devoted to the destruction of law, order and society in the name of unlimited individual freedom...
...such powers have been reserved to the three Western allies under the terms of a 1955 treaty. Supporters of the bill claim that the new law would only make Germans the masters of their own house in times of national emergency. But students and other opponents insist that, despite many safeguards in the bill, the new law could lead to a repetition of 1933, when Hitler, invoking broad executive powers long since done away with, suspended the Weimar Constitution and made him self a dictator...
...charge was based on the confession, probably obtained after torture, of Savinkov at his 1924 trial that Masaryk had given him 200,000 rubles. Historians accept the fact that Masaryk gave money to a number of Russians for a number of reasons: to help them escape to freedom in Western Europe; or for cultural purposes; or to help get Czech troops out of Russia to continue the fight against Germany after the Bolsheviks opted out of World War I. At his trial, Savinkov himself testified that he did not know exactly what the money was to be used...
Questions Invited. Nothing so symbolized Dubcek's determination to press ahead with his "democratization" as the fact that last week, for the first time in 13 years, a Czechoslovak Communist leader held an open press conference, Western style.*Premier Oldrich Cernik welcomed some 100 Czechoslovak and foreign newsmen to the Presidium building in Prague for chocolate cookies, almond pastries, rich black coffee-and some give-and-take. Flanked by Ota Sik, Deputy Premier for Economic Affairs, Cernik first discussed the government's reforms. Legislation was being drafted, he said, to guarantee freedom of the press and the right...
...Lord" into the speech of his characters. 3) The stories in his songs: he's put plots with beginnings and endings and protagonists other than himself into the songs. Some of his earlier songs--Corrina, Corrina, and Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance -- are heavy imitations of Country & Western sound. Dylan comes from Hibbing, Minnesota, a town he describes with great amusement on the printed insert that comes with The Times They Are A-Changin'. A college classmate of the wife of a former editor of mine went to high school with Dylan, and said he was small...