Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what did he say to Harold Wilson, Kurt Kiesinger, Willy Brandt, Aldo Moro and other officials? As Kennedy reported after two hours with Wilson, they had discussed problems "all over the world." The vagueness mattered little. The Kennedy name carries more magic than ever in Western Europe, and Bobby's political hosts scored more points with their constituents close at hand than New York's junior Senator did with his far away. He spent 70 minutes with De Gaulle, and even if he only said, "Bonjour, Monsieur le Président, il fait froid aujourd...
Still, Japan's political system is far more complicated than the Liberal Democratic Party admits. It has been described by Western observers as "a party and a half" system, with the L.D.P. being the party and the opposition adding up to the half. Japan's Socialists, who control more than 12 million votes, are the nation's second biggest voting bloc, but Party Boss Kozo Sasaki, 65, is a Peking-lining fanatic who is even farther to the left than Communist Party Leader Sanzo Nozaka, 74, who last year struck a course away from Peking and more...
Back to School. If true, it was as clear a warning as the Kremlin could deliver to Mao Tse-tung to keep his revolutionaries occupied with internal Chinese matters. Western observers believe that it is precisely because Mao is having trouble gaining the upper hand at home that he has so strongly rallied the Chinese against Russia-a trick as old as tyranny. Within China, though the swirl of disorder seemed to abate temporarily, opposing factions busily jockeyed about to win both minds and territory. Mao's increasing dependence on military force illustrated his conviction that "rifles make...
Though Marx and Lenin both wore beards-as do current Comrades Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Walter Ulbricht-beards have long been in disfavor throughout much of the Communist world. The wholly unkempt look is considered antisocial and a sign of Western decadence. Alarmed by the growing number of beards appearing on students and intellectuals, Rumania has now earned the distinction of being the first Communist state to take official action against the menace. With the invincible Communist lack of humor that no amount of economic liberalization can cure, the Rumanian government has decreed that beards may henceforth...
...their drive to purify Rumania's youth of Western influence, the Communists have also decided that bare legs are as bad as shaggy chins. Though red-blooded Rumanians like to think of Bucharest as "the Paris of the Balkans," the authorities have also banned miniskirts. When nubile girls came upon some Western fashion magazines and began drawing up their skirts over the knee, the regime began dressing down the culprits. The styles quickly changed, but the Rumanian girls, most of whom are their own seamstresses, did not completely toe the party hemline. The latest style is the knee-length...