Word: westernness
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Under U.S. protection, Western Europe built back to prosperity, and Japan became the first nonwhite nation with an industrialized economy. Beyond the Iron Curtain, Russia and China reconstructed their own bases of power. As others grew, the relative power of the U.S. inevitably shrank. In two decades, its share of the world's income dropped to one-third, its steel production fell from three-fifths to onequarter, its great gold stock melted as the balance of payments shifted. And most significantly, it lost its unique position as the world's only nuclear nation...
Soviet writers and intellectuals have been further upset by the long-rumored ill treatment of writers in the Ukraine, where the party does things much more quietly. In a manuscript that reached the Western press last week, Ukrainian Television Newsman Vyacheslav Chornovil, who is now in a Soviet labor camp, detailed the repressive methods of the Ukrainian secret police, who have hustled at least 15 top intellectuals off to labor camps. The police invaded their homes without search warrants, confiscated their manuscripts, and, after endless interrogations about supposed anti-Soviet writings, had them convicted at secret trials...
...Sorokin, 79, eminent Russian-born sociologist and longtime (1931-1964) Harvard professor; in Winchester, Mass. Sorokin's theory of historical change, as laid down in his Social and Cultural Dynamics, centered on the distinction between "sensate" or materialistic values and "ideational" values based on faith and love. Western civilization, he felt, was far too sensate. Over the years, he wrote some 30 books (The Crisis of Our Age, Altruistic Love) aimed at curbing mankind's predatory, self-destructive instinct...
...Americans, this sounds easy enough; just let free trade take its course, and the nations will develop. Western foreign aid programs rest on this assumption: give the poor countries a start, and soon they will be able to build themselves by trade...
...each citizen of a "rich" country--the United States, Russia, Canada, Australia, Japan, and the developed Western European countries--was supported by about twenty times as much industrial and agricultural wealth as his counter-part in a poor country in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. More frightening, by the year 2000 the ratio will be about...