Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern mind and the Western mind are indeed different. Your excellent Essay "The Mind of China" [March 17] mentions some of the differences. They apply to all inheritors of the great Eastern civilizations. Behind so much of the economic and social stagnation in India and elsewhere is the passivity toward values outside those of family and community. There must be a reconciliation between Western values of materialism and individual liberty and the Eastern concept of a "cosmic rhythm" to which we are all subordinated. This balance has been struck most effectively since the war (and as a result...
Nickel was preceded into East Germany by Marshall Loeb, who edits TIME color projects, and Photographer Jerry Cooke. Their entries also took much wangling, but once inside the country they encountered only minor harassment. Once, while Cooke was photographing the Wall from the western side, a soldier from the other side kept blinking a mirror into his lens. One frustration for the visiting journalist in East Germany is the obligatory, ever-present "guide," for whose services the government charges $40 a day. Nickel's escort was a friendly but ideologically correct type who called the Western correspondent "beloved enemy...
...Romance Languages and Literature -- the function of the king in Spanish drama of the 17th century; Dr. Giles Constable, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History -- the monastic movements of the 11th and 12th centuries; Dr. Albert M. Craig, associate professor of Japanese History -- bureaucratic modernization in non-Western societies...
...last week turned out precisely as the Administration had billed it-a routine review of the Viet Nam war-a sense of anticlimax swept the U.S. Considering that the President had assembled a score of top aides and hauled them 8,700 miles to a remote rock in the western Pacific, spending more time in the air (36 hours) than on the ground (31 hours), it was only natural that the nation should expect dramatic results. There were none. Johnson simply reaffirmed his determination to stand fast in Viet Nam until Hanoi is ready to talk. And judging from...
...blamed for much of what is wrong with the film. Joyce can be blamed for the rest; he presents a moviemaker with formidable problems. Ulysses is one of the most complex literary compositions of modern times: a short story that exploded into a veritable summa of 30 centuries of Western culture. Most of the leading European languages, ancient and modern, and 18 different literary modes are merged in the amazing Joycean jargon-all of them so repetitively punctuated with wordplays that the book resembles a giant pun cushion...