Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have worked in Thailand most of the past 28 years, and I consider the statement "Asians relate personally to others, or not at all" a luminous insight. Asians do not want first either Western money or Western technology. Yet Asia needs both, and Asians are aware of the need. Asians want first their brothers, and until they find their fellow human beings-until we overcome the alienation that has developed as the result of inadequate Western understanding of and appreciation for Asian culture and Asians as people-there will be suspicion, resentment, and even violence. If the Asian can find...
...married Liu Lin-feng, a teacher of Russian and the daughter of a deceased war lord, was given a job as a translator for the Foreign Languages Press at about $85 a month. He lived well by Chinese standards in a three-room apartment, had access to Western publications (including TIME) because of his work. Despite constant indoctrination at every stage of his life in China, the great promise of China began to dim: "In China, the people are not free of mind. They don't dare conflict with the official view...
...Kirkwood, a former Harvard medical professor and public health commissioner of Massachusetts, as its new president. Later, Harvard's President Nathan Pusey and President Emeritus James Conant will join the year-long celebration as A.U.B. moves ahead on what Kirkwood sees as its main mission: "To provide a Western education without alienating the student from his Middle Eastern environment...
...Western Power & Gas (694,000 telephones) of Lincoln, Neb., headed by Chairman-President Judson Large, controls eleven operating companies scattered from Worthington, Minn., to Tallahassee...
...past few weeks, with summer touring getting into full swing, air travel in Western Europe has been a chancy proposition. The Scandinavian Airlines System's pilots were on strike for ten days; Sabena personnel were locked out after two weekend walkouts to press for a new work contract; Alitalia ground personnel walked out for the third time since May, and Air France employees went on their sixth short strike of the year...