Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are sharp limits to the geographic extent of Chinese military power. China simply does not have the industrial base to fight the kind of war the Japanese fought a quarter century ago, when they destroyed our naval power and defeated Western armies some 3000 miles from their own home bases.... Because of our great mobility by air and sea and China's poor transport capacity even by land, the United States is strategically much closer to parts of East and South Asia than is China. It is for these reasons that any attempt by China to conquer and hold...
...stock farm in the rolling country of Shropshire in western England, Farmer Richard Ellis noticed one day that two of his pigs were limping. He called in the local veterinarian, and received a dreaded diagnosis. His pigs had somehow become infected with one of the most contagious and toll-taking of all animal maladies: foot-and-mouth disease. That was in October, and the authorities immediately slaughtered all of Ellis' livestock, buried them and took other preventive measures to confine the disease to one area. But the malady, which spreads with the silence and virulence of the bubonic plague...
...teetotaler, Joe's strength is as the strength of ten because his drink is pure-Kola Loca Lemonade, for which he is Western sales representative. Though a deadly shot, he aims mainly for a greater share of the market by getting endorsements from notorious gunslingers. Lou and Winifred start lowering their eyes and necklines in his direction, but the Badman brothers start raising hell. In a grand-horse-opera finale, everyone gets plugged and expires in a heap on boot hill. Infusions of Kola Loca magically resurrect them all, whereupon Joe, Horace, Doug and Lou discover that they...
...which there are fastdraw clubs in Tokyo, the western has become a universal myth. Any country with a horse and a revolver can make or fake a western-and most have. But to satirize the myth is another matter. With their astringent Lemonade, the Czechs prove that they not only love the western but understand it well enough to kid the Levi...
...passing year, Rodin emerges more clearly as the most profound, most expressively varied sculptor since Michelangelo, and here is a book that demonstrates why. In one superb photograph after another, the reader can trace the astonishing career of an artist who, though basically in the great classic tradition of Western sculpture, broke through formal bonds all his life. The text, an admirably incisive critique, enhances this tribute to Rodin on the 50th anniversary of his death...