Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eugene McCarthy-and in some cases, because of it-Democratic regulars are beginning to coalesce behind the President. Last week the Massachusetts State Committee overwhelmingly endorsed him, and a group of Western Democratic leaders called unanimously for his reelection...
...been any doubt that Kirk is among the quick. But is he for real? Says a former business associate: "He is a complete political huckster, a phony and a very dangerous man." To Bill Baggs, editor of the Miami News, "Kirk appears to be the only man in Western civilization who has more answers than there are questions." The Miami Herald refers to him as "Claudius Maximus...
...heart of Eden's anomie lie vast technological changes in Western culture that have steadily lengthened childhood and sharply diminished communication between generations. In primitive cultures, boys become men immediately upon surviving harsh rites of passage. In agrarian societies, a hard-working farmer's son rapidly becomes a certified adult. Until recently, puberty occurred at about 14 or 15, marriage two or three years later. The word "teenager" was inconceivable for such 17-year-old adults as Joan of Arc or Surveyor George Washington. In the 18th century, many upper-class Englishmen impressively taught their eldest sons...
...Western sources in Nicosia, Cyprus said that the recent Greek-Turkish agreement for withdrawal of Greek forces from the eastern Mediterranean island may hang in the balance...
...critique charges that the United States is "the major counter-revolutionary force in a revolutionary world." It claims that "only one point of view is really being offered in the lectures and assigned reading of History 164b--that the U.S. has been the protector of the Western and underdeveloped world from Communist domination...