Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite Ho Chi Minh's shortcomings -and they were considerable-I think we would have to agree that he was a man dedicated to his people against Western colonialism...
...Another Western nation forced to ac cept a reduced vision of its importance is Britain, which managed to make the best of it by agreeing with Malcolm Muggeridge that second-rate powers had "great fun." Britain's new devotion to fun produced Europe's most vigorous theater, practically a new age in popular music and a pop scene that has been emulated the world over. By contrast, the French seem hesitant, even fearful about tapping those resources of the imagination and intellect that once struck the rest of the world as being virtually inexhaustible. They have discovered...
...Gaulle's approach to culture-involving the careful engineering of a creative resurgence-was entrusted to Andre Malraux, Western Europe's only Minister of Culture. Malraux's greatest achievements have been largely those of a museum curator-the staging of highly .successful retrospectives (Picasso and Vermeer), the lending of treasures abroad, the sandblasting of Paris' soot-stained architecture. Beyond that, he sought to dot the French provinces with Maisons de la Culture, designed to bring theater and art to outlying cities and towns. While the idea was not without merit, many of the theatrical directors Malraux...
...Aldous Huxley's phrase, are simply in search of a high. Pop drugs are inextricably mixed with the youth culture and its distaste for a supertechnology that seems remote, false and uncaring. The two-martini lunch and the cocktail party have become potent symbols of frantic, achievement-oriented Western culture; for the young drug taker, the belligerent or sloppy drunk personifies the older generation's "hypocrisy" and lack of control. The darker side of pop drugs is the fact that some users have serious emotional problems. Dr. Phyllis Kempner, a clinical psychologist who works with drug abusers of many kinds...
Unprecedentedly, not one of those 23 new series is a western or an old-fashioned cops-and-robbers show. Instead, there is a swing back to the situation comedy and, for action, to the less lethal lawyers, teachers and, especially, doctors. Sex is out, but procreation is certainly in. The eight new situation comedies will introduce at least eleven kids among them, and some of the holdover shows are hugely pregnant. Samantha in Bewitched will bear her second child in November; Agents 86 and 99 in Get Smart are expecting twins...