Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absence of U.S. competition, Russia has won new customers in the Mideast who had previously bought only Western wares. It has made a deal to sell $110 million in military trucks and assorted gear to the Shah of Iran, is rearming the Sudanese army, which previously used British equipment, and may even find a client in Jordan's pro-Western King Hussein, who has not yet received from the U.S. the 36 Lockheed Starfighters that he had ordered before the June conflict. In the wake of the Egyptian withdrawal from Yemen, Russia has also swiftly increased its presence...
...advice as often as he takes it. The deeper their penetration becomes, the more they are bound to be caught up in the bitter quarrels and mutual hatreds that rack the Middle East. Moreover, they know full well that the Arabs still depend for much of their income on Western oil companies. Since they have neither the money nor the need for that much oil, the Russians have so far been content to leave the Western oil companies alone...
...Once. Among young conductors today, one who has this emanation -plus musicianship-to an extraordinary degree is Bombay-born Zubin Mehta, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Though he is only 31, Mehta managed the formidable feat of adapting to Western culture, then precociously stormed the most daunting
...Toronto Symphony's Seiji Ozawa, 32, a Japanese and the only Oriental besides Mehta to flourish on Western podiums, is no less a dynamic charmer than Mehta. A favorite of young people, he sports a Beatle hairdo and a free-swinging style in the manner of Leonard Bernstein. Sometimes he indulges his expressive stick technique to paint panels of sheer sound, but he can also propel vibrant, vivacious performances as notable for their substance as for their sheen...
...whose members he calls "the Jews of India"; they are descended from a group that fled Persia 1,300 years ago so that they could continue to practice their Zoroastrian faith. The Parsis, 150,000 strong, are business, commercial and social leaders of Bombay, noted for their receptivity to Western culture...