Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oddly enough, while the government has lately gone all out to attract tourists to Czechoslovakia, it has detained more than 60 Western tourists in the past year, many of them for minor traffic violations or petty smuggling charges. It has yet to explain the mysterious death of Charles Jordan, vice chairman of the American Joint Distribution Committee, whose body was found in the Vltava River in August. Another sign of a less permissive policy: Czech border guards have opened fire on fugitives from Communism, in the past two months killing two and wounding three others who were trying to cross...
...take the new repression lying down. Once one of the more submissive Communist peoples, the Czechs are now among the most demanding and least obedient. To other Communists, their capital of Prague has become the swinging city of Eastern Europe, where miniskirts are modish, teen-agers dance to a Western beat and long hair flows from the scalps of young men in flowery sport shirts and bell-bottom trousers...
...species could be sensibly subdivided into races, then the races could be measured one against another, could be assigned proper places in the hierarchy of mankind. Cultural and geographical isolation, occurring over numberless millennia, could conceivably have bred peoples of widely differing physical and intellectual capacity. And taking Western technological man as the norm, it could be possible, given the right tools, to compare his performance against those of all the other human varieties...
...once confessed to Anthropologist Ashley Montagu that in the Australian Aborigine's society, he would rightfully be regarded as an intellectual idiot who could neither track a wallaby nor throw a boomerang. As Anthropologist Stanley Garn has dryly noted, if the Aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. "It is possible that some of the behavioral differences between human groups may be genetically determined," says University of Michigan Anthropologist Ernst Goldschmidt. "These may include differences in intelligence, but such differences may equally be due to cultural determinants. The question simply remains open." Harvard...
John Holme (1686) Hunters like to dream of what it must have been like in the old days, when herds of buffalo grazed the Western plains, when virgin glades were thick with elk and wild fowl. Game, they complain, is disappearing in the face of pollution, deforestation-and competition from the 17,999,999 other Nim-rods out there blazing away...