Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claims not to enjoy all the publicity, Shurcliff has developed a sure public relations touch. When Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd announced that transcontinental SST's might fly subsonic over the populated eastern half of the country and then supersonic from Chicago to Califor- nia, Shurcliff immediately wrote to western political leaders pointing out how little the SST's proponents seemed to care for the west's peace and quiet...
...author, decorator, designer, consumer analyst, critic, raconteur, painter, gourmet cook and popular after-dinner speaker. His canvases have won respectful reviews in four Manhattan exhibits. His first book, a diatribe about trends in art and architecture called The Irresponsible Arts, drew mostly critical barbs, but Across the Western Ocean fared better. It consists mostly of the log of two trips in his 47-ft. yawl, Figaro III. In the book, Skipper Snaith, one of the world's top transoceanic sailors, wrote: "We are all swarmy in our many layers of clothing. This morning I thought I smelled a horse...
...World War II drew to a close in Europe, men of vengeance and men of vision contemplated the future of Germany. There were those, like Winston Churchill, who saw both the threat of Soviet expansion into war-wasted Western Europe and the need for a revived and economically viable Germany to stand as a buffer before the Commu nist advance. And there were people like Ernest Hemingway, who recommended that all Nazis be castrated...
...years since have, of course, proved Churchill right. Morgenthau had predicted that unless his harsh demands were met, Germany would make another war within ten years after the surrender. When this failed to happen and West Germany became a prized and democratic member of the Western Alliance, the old hawk must have been puzzled-and probably unconvinced...
Author Yanovsky, 60, a Russian emigre physician and writer of seven novels published in Western Europe (this is the first to appear in the U.S.), seems to suggest that modern technological man has lost meaningful continuity with the broader patterns of human destiny. Yanovsky puts force into this familiar proposition by his crisp, evocative writing and the persuasive allure of his slightly disturbing Utopia. At the end, he sends Cornelius back to the village to take up life there as if he had never left. It is a neat finish for his tale, but, alas, he has left the reader...