Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even hinted that West Germany might soon be prepared to ignore the old Hallstein Doctrine and grant diplomatic recognition to the Eastern countries. "In the past, Germany served as the bridge between Western and Eastern Europe," said Kiesinger. "We should like to perform that role again...
...document that Spain approved represents no great leap toward Western-style democracy, but it is at least a step in the direction of political liberalization. It guarantees religious freedom to the tiny minority of Spaniards-30,000 Protestants and 6,000 Jews-who were not born into Catholic families. It confirms the law of last year that relaxed government controls over the labor movement, including the right to strike, and all but destroys the already hollow shell of the Falangist Party. It also creates direct elections for one-fifth of the members of Parliament; the other four-fifths will continue...
...stunned Smole countered this dastardly democratic behavior with an old Western parliamentary trick of his own. In a denouement without precedent in the Communist world, he and his executive council resigned-on the grounds that they had lost a no-confidence vote. The Parliament hastily convened to ask Smole & Co. to stay on as a caretaker government until a new one could be elected-when and how, no one quite knew. Smole himself set to work lobbying like any Western politician for enough support to get the bill passed on a second try. The shudder from such a convulsive exercise...
Charged with attempted escape from Western Penitentiary, Convicts Richard Mayberry, Dominic Codispodi and Herbert Langnes set out to goad Judge Fiok into declaring a mistrial. They demanded the right to defend themselves; and once they got it, they proceeded to act like crazy lawyers and harass Judge Fiok all the more...
Nothing could be a more natural subject during the Renaissance than the Nativity. Western man himself was then being reborn into a world where he occupied the center of his own attention; artists could not avoid depicting the compelling paradox of Christ as a combination of both God and fleshly man. And yet, the discovery of Christ's humanity, far from diminishing the mystery, only added to the glory of the Christmas story...