Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Image of Man. Unlike Western artists spellbound by the herculean Rockies, Homer mapped the more mercurial Eastern seacoast. From the Adirondack lakes, he followed streams in his fishing scenes down to where lonely dorymen bobbed on the icy Atlantic banks and sailors were blown through tropical cays. Ever present in Homer is the imminence of brewing nor'easters and hurricanes. But in fair weather or foul, Homer insisted on the image of man prevailing against nature...
When President Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the canal from its British and French owners, the Times of London, in a typical Western view, declared: "An international waterway of this kind cannot be worked by a nation of as low technical and managerial skills as the Egyptians." Now, ten years after Nasser's nationalization, it is clear that the Egyptians are, if anything, better capable of running the canal than the old Suez Canal...
Nevada Smith is an excerpt from The Carpetbaggers, blown into a widescreen western roomy enough to accommodate some of the sex and violence missing from the first, expurgated movie version of Harold Robbins' bestseller. Turning a thankless bit part created by the late Alan Ladd into a title role for Steve McQueen, Nevada follows a half-breed boy on an odyssey of vengeance in pursuit of three professional gunmen who murdered his white father, raped and skinned his Indian mother...
...reconvene the conference immediately for a negotiated settlement of the Viet Nam war and pledged that India, as chairman of the conference's International Control Commission, would aid in policing a Viet Nam ceasefire. She also extolled India's traditional policy of joining neither Eastern nor Western blocs. "Nonalignment," she said, "can harmonize the tensions which grow out of changing alignments. Its practice is consistent with friendship for all." All that would be familiar and reassuring to her father's old buddies, and no doubt very good politics for India's lady...
...week conference, now in its fourth day, is the first ecumenical meeting of this kind at which most of the participants are laymen. It is also the first such meeting at which there are more delegates from Asia, Africa and Latin America than from North American and Western Europe...