Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RAVI SHANKAR IN NEW YORK (World Pacific). The master sitarist's latest rendition of the sound that has infiltrated jazz and indeed reOriented all Western popular music. Ever since the Beatles endorsed Shankars traditional Indian music last year, his ragas have become all the rage. From the long-necked, gourd-bellied sitar, Shankar strokes a whining, hypnotizing stream of spontaneous melodies within the framework of a predetermined pattern of notes. The Eastern "scales" he uses are now definitely required running by jazz musicians, especially bassists, whose solos frequently echo his soulful, inscrutable improvisations...
...East Germans have urged a detente in Europe which would enable them to establish diplomatic ties with the NATO powers. But as long as the West Germans refuse to tolerate relations between any of their allies and the East Germans, very few countries -- and none of the major Western powers -- will recognize East Germany...
...supported the principle of preferential tariff policy by all industrialized nations toward the entire underdeveloped world, but would not accept Latin American demands for preferential treatment in U.S. markets. We do not wish to see the world economy split into two mutually exclusive trading zones - one in the Western Hemisphere, and another between Europe and her former colonies in Africa...
Despite their startlingly modern appearance and realistic technique, the portraits happen to be among the oldest painted likenesses in the Western world. Earlier Egyptians and Mesopotamian peoples depicted their kings and pharaohs with rigid stylization; Greeks in the age of Pericles idealized the human face and form. It was not until the era of Alexander the Great that realism of any kind became fashionable. From the many Hellenistic and Roman busts of marble that have survived we know how the ancients saw and depicted themselves. But the moist climates of Greece and Italy have long since sent most classical paintings...
...Polish surveys of 1958 and 1961 showed also a rise in the acceptance of some form of socialism--a socialism, however, which tended implicitly to be identified with certain economic and social welfare programs associated with Western social democracy (state ownership of industry, free medical care). Much less evident was an identification of socialism, as actual economic and social programs, with Marxism-Leninism; rather, Marxism-Leninism was identified with ideology. Yugoslav surveys in 1960 and 1965 indicate that in each case about three-fourths of the sample ex- pressed a "completely positive or partly positive attitude towards the fundamental elements...