Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must not be made on the basis of the year 1967, but on the basis of the U.S. about 1870 and the U.S.S.R. 1967. On this basis you will find a striking similarity between the young U.S. and the young U.S.S.R.: in both countries violence (see Western films), slavery, poverty and log cabins. In the young U.S. was capitalism to place the cornerstone of the greatness and the liberty of a nation, using the slavery of the Negroes and the cheap labor of white immigrants; now the poor Italians and Irishmen are independent and some of them rich and opulent...
...survival ability of modern nations: "If the President had picked me to predict which country [in postwar Europe] would recover first, I would say, 'Bring me the records of maintenance.' The nation with the best maintenance will recover first. Maintenance is something very, very specifically Western. They haven't got it in Russia. If I got in there in the warehouse, let's say, and I saw that the broom had a special nail, I would say, This is the nail of immortality...
...they might attract about 20 students. By the time registration closed, 350 had signed up, ranging in age from 15 to 70, about one-third of them Negro. Neighborhood College teachers are impressed by the zeal and intelligence of their students. Historian Williams, who teaches the same course in Western civilization at the college that he gives at Cornell, finds that "the older housewives can write a literate essay-which is more than I can say for most Cornell freshmen...
...holding company in Luxembourg with easy access to the local stock exchange costs a trifle-less than 1% of the initial capital-and takes only a few days. Even with a 0.16% annual tax on their nominal capital, companies find the deal far better than similar arrangements elsewhere in Western Europe...
...colonel obsessed with "the wily Pathan," who claims to understand the working man. "I had a grandfather who was a miner," he muses, "until he sold it." The larger its targets, the more petty grows the film. In deliberately choosing to caricature one of the most justifiable conflicts of Western history, War frequently displays a kind of tasteless, nose-thumbing anti-jingoism, as when a ventriloquist appears with a gross, grating dummy modeled on Winston Churchill...