Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro, was assigned by the Twentieth Century Fund to undertake a definitive study of South Asia's problems and prospects. The job took him ten years, including three spent traveling in the area, and his findings fill three volumes and 2,500 pages. Impatient with the Western tendency to defer to the heightened sensitivities of South Asian leaders and thereby pull their critical punches, Myrdal tells it like he sees it. Many of his conclusions will not only depress Westerners concerned about the area's future, but will certainly upset many Asians...
Neither civilian rulers such as Indira Gandhi nor the generals who have taken over from the postcolonial politicians in many South Asian nations have had much success in changing these attitudes. The result is that the best-laid, often Western-tutored, economic plans consistently go awry. Whether military or civilian, nominally capitalist or self-styled socialist, "the various political systems in the region are strikingly similar in their inability or unwillingness to institute fundamental reforms and enforce social discipline. They are all in this sense 'soft states.' " And, adds Myrdal: "There is little hope in South Asia...
...collapsed in its first year. Restive students, as well as some of the staff, revolted at the tough regimen and Tussman's rigid concept of a meaningful curriculum. Demanding the right to shape courses to their own interests, some students pleaded for an emphasis on Eastern rather than Western culture. Tussman acidly answered that a student cannot "pick up the wisdom of a foreign culture if he doesn't understand his own." Many of the students took to introspection with drugs, turned up in class turned on-which infuriated Tussman, who feared his project could be killed...
Until lately, most Western bankers figured that the creaking monetary system would hold together long enough-perhaps another three years-to let reserves artificially created by the IMF begin to supplement gold's historic role. British devaluation and two subsequent runs on gold have drastically shrunk the transition time. "The monetary system is now in a continuous and drawnout crisis," says Roy L. Reierson, senior vice president and chief economist of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. Last week Reierson added his voice to those demanding that the London gold pool be closed, and that the U.S. limit...
...this was not prophetic vision but alert reporting. He took an extra step, however, by describing the spread of marijuana, peyote and the synthetic mind benders as "the red man's revenge." The Return of the Vanishing American, an examination of the development of the American western novel, is an elaboration on this last point...