Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a fairly advanced feudal base. The Japanese have developed a truly industrial society within many of the old forms. A working democracy coexists with a profound need for authority and group action, a consumer economy with esthetic frugality (one picture hanging at a time, in contrast with the Western collector's crowded wall). Industry is paternalistic and feudal-hardly anyone gets fired or quits-although that is beginning to change...
China long resisted modernization and is now frantically catching up, at immense cost. Communism, a Western ideology, substitutes struggle for harmony but at the same time plays on ancient Chinese traditions, notably the submission of the individual to the state. Says David Rowe, Yale professor of political science: "The Chinese Communists have reverted to some of the worst things in the history of Chinese civilization: super-elitism, perversion of education into indoctrination, conspiratorial politics." Yet the older forms of Chinese despotism were apt to be lax, since the country was too vast for tight control; the Communists, thanks to modern...
...Western Offer...
Seed & Pesticides. From Manila to Maracaibo, Western capital and technology are at work today producing fertilizer, farm machinery, seed and pesticides-and teaching peasant farmers how to use them. They are also marketing new foods. In Colombia. Quaker Oats is promoting a powdered cereal that contains cottonseed flour, corn meal, sorghum and yeast to add body-strengthening vitamins and protein to diets in which their lack dwarfs and weakens millions of children each year. Minneapolis-based Archer-Daniels-Midland is shipping a protein-enriched powdered-soybean beverage to countries as far off as Korea. Corn Products Co. is working...
Duel at Diablo is ostensibly a battle between murderous Apaches and a company of American folk types who are fighting their way with troops, ammunition and supplies from a place called Fort Creel to a place called Fort Concho. Many a sturdy western has sprung to life from such straightforward plans as these, but Director Ralph Nelson and his scenarists clutter up the spectacular Utah scenery with something other than frontier history. Clearly indebted to more current events, Diablo's wagon train carries two kinds of people: bad guys and freedom riders...