Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more adulated Slavs. There is none of their relentless virtuosity-none of Wajda's beautiful but monotonously static compositions, none of the bludgeoning Polanski's Wellesian low angels and shock cuts, none of the coy mysteriousness common to Shop on Main Street and Joseph Kilian. Forman is more Western in temperament, a humanist in the Renoir-Truffaut-Olmi line of descent...
...only hope is to raise taxes. California ranks 12th among Western states in the percentage of per capita income its citizens pay to support state colleges and universities. The California legislature has the last word on the cuts in the University budget, and they should force their constituents to look at the question more carefully...
...second favorite medical school for Harvard was Columbia; for Radcliffe. Western Reserve...
...advantage of the opportunities offered by their underdeveloped and underpopulated neighbor. The Ibos soon dominated major northern industries and captured crucial transportation and communications jobs. The Hausas, frustrated by their inability to complete with the "foreigners," became steadily more hostile toward the Ibo minority in their midst. In the Western Region, the Yorubas, who form the third major tribal division, remained largely neutral, although they looked upon the Easterners as "aggressive upstarts...
Nigeria's Northern and Western Regions consider a loose confederation and Ibo secession equally unattractive. The East has just discovered large deposits of oil, and its neighbors want to make sure that they share in the benefits. The North declared that if the East tried to pull out of the federation, it would use force to bring the rebels back. The Ibos responded by arming...