Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Uruguayans pride themselves on having the purest democracy in the Western Hemisphere. They got it 14 years ago, when the nation abolished its one-man presidency and set up a Swiss-style nine-man National Council, in which four members of the majority party take annual turns as the country's nominal President. It turned out to be too much of a good thing, for the government was paralyzed much of the time and the men in power could not resist voting an ever greater welfare state for its 2,600,000 people...
...fighting malaria as well as the human enemy. But now, according to a report jointly issued by the U.S. Army Medical Research Team in Viet Nam and the Institut Pasteur of Saigon, another killer is mounting a virulent attack. Bubonic plague, the Black Death that slaughtered a third of Western Europe during the 14th century, has suddenly started claiming casualties by the thousands. In 1961, only eight cases were reported in South Viet Nam. Last year some 4,500 cases were recognized, and there were upwards of 200 deaths. So far this year, half of the republic's provinces...
...Manhattan, another drawn-out haggle reached an impasse last week. Without a contract since late July, 23,000 Communications Workers of America equipment installers have been reporting for work on a day-to-day basis at facilities of Western Electric Co., A.T. & T.'s manufacturing subsidiary. C.W.A. President Joseph A. Beirne, who has vowed to make the Western Electric settlement standard throughout the Bell System, last week rejected a company offer of a 3.4% wage increase. Beirne has. authority to call a strike at any time...
...unedifying tall stories. Nonetheless, God's word has all of a sudden become a bestseller in Russia. Last month, Moscow's Publishing House for Political Literature brought out a new book called Biblical Stories containing Lamblike retellings of Old Testament passages, illustrations in color drawn from classical Western art, and sardonic commentaries by two atheist editors. Within a few hours, the entire first edition of 100,000 copies was completely sold...
...baroque and the bumptious of the man, Rebecca West once wondered if it would not be better to judge Bennett as a character rather than an author. "He could not be compared properly with Fielding, or Dickens, or Balzac," she said, "but he could be compared with Squire Western, or Mr. Micawber, or Lucien de Rubempre." The posthumous publication of parts of his own remarkable million-word Journal, moreover, only added to the popular caricature of him as a fop, a snob, and a frightened little poseur hiding behind bombast and a vulgar cocksureness...