Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustrating its citizens and slowing economic progress. Instead of a classless society devoted to the interests of the workers, Communism has spawned a new privileged caste of party members and bureaucrats whose style of life includes villas, limousines, maids and even special shops in which they can buy scarce Western luxuries. In Russia to day, the worker and peasant are still where they always were: at the bottom. When it comes to the economy, the regime is desperately struggling to free itself from the uncompromising bonds of its own doctrine. In Communist theory...
...knowledge of the radical students at Harvard is of course limited. Among those I do know I sense that every single one has an astonishingly deep commitment to quite traditional Western conceptions of freedom, especially the freedom to exchange ideas. Perhaps what gets these students into trouble is that they take liberal ideas seriously...
...provides rather strong evidence, though certainly not proof, in support of the thesis that attacks on law and order, including revolutionary attacks, have under certain conditions helped to create new systems of law and order with greater freedom. In the third place, it is alas only too clear that Western democracy is not what many of us would like to think it is and are often taught to believe it is: the social and political mechanism that can resolve the clashes of human passions and interests peacefully, equitably, and slowly. In my view this notion is quite clearly a complacent...
Within months after V-E day, Stalin's "dream" of acquiring a buffer zone along Russia's western border had come true. Kennan dismisses as absurd the notion that Stalin's expansionist appetite was fed by fears of the U.S. or anger at not being offered enormous sums of American aid. He recalls what a Soviet friend told him in 1944: "This is something you should bear in mind about the Russian. The better things go for him, the more arrogant he is. When we are successful, keep...
Woolf writes of the death of sweet reason that afflicted the Western world during and between the two world wars. The title of this book refers to the Gadarene swine in the Bible, who were possessed of evil spirits and, according to St. Luke, "ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked." The swine, as Woolf sees it, were the Tories and ultranationalists who brought on the first World War, and the fascists and Communists whose fanaticism and civic savagery made a shambles of the peace...