Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youthful convert to Marxism, he toyed for a time with Catholicism to the point of considering taking monastic vows. His first of several dozen novels-and perhaps his best -was the Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples, a piquant, picaresque satire a la Voltaire of both Western capitalism and the Communist Revolution, still considered heretical in Russia...
Though he continued to live mainly in Western Europe until 1940, Ehrenburg craved official approval at home...
...horrendous anti-Western tales are too incredible to be disbelieved, no facts about Communism or the Third World sufficiently well-documented to be accepted. The liberal intelligentsia has replaced reason by faith, rational judgments by visceral reactions...
...achievement came at a time when the Western world stood poised before the high Renaissance on the one hand, the Reformation on the other. With surpassing style, Master E.S. had taken a last loving look at the age of chivalry -and ushered in the angst to come...
...conglomerate companies like Gulf & Western Industries, such mergers have had spectacular results. Under Chairman Charles Bluhdorn, Gulf & Western, which a decade ago was an ailing Houston auto-parts company, has gobbled up one company after another (among them: Paramount Pictures, New Jersey Zinc) to balloon into a $1 bil-lion-a-year operation. A pioneer in the conglomerate-building field, Los Angeles' Litton Industries, which was started almost from scratch by Chairman Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton (TIME cover, Oct. 4, 1963) and President Roy Ash in 1953, is still building. Last week, Litton (1966 sales: $1.2 billion) arranged...