Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another context, giving up the world is an achievement to which Americans are profoundly drawn. All the great Western heroes from Daniel Boone on are revered and envied not merely for physical prowess but for attaining a free life, unfettered by civilization's rules. Today, the hero must find his niche very much inside civilization, and he will probably belong to the ranks of the specialist heroes. No intellectual can be a hero to those who don't read (except in France), nor any baseball player to a man who never goes to a game. But they have...
...after West Germany joined NATO in 1955? Will there be a new shape to the Continent? Certainly France and Russia - allies of old in the broad European context - have it in their power to change the structure of Europe. De Gaulle has already generated a new atmosphere in the Western alliance, and the Russians are under considerable pressure to alter the nature of their own Warsaw Pact. Whatever the outcome of the visit, De Gaulle in Russia will have a significant impact on the changes already taking place...
...part of his bargaining with West Germany over the ultimate disposition of French forces beyond the Rhine, De Gaulle announced the withdrawal of 75 French fighter-bombers from Germany-despite the fact that bilateral talks over the French presence are still under Way. Like it or not, the Western alliance was winging toward change...
...minor, though hopeful. Full-scale U.S. aid to India is being resumed after a halt caused by the Kashmir war, and an aid-India consortium, organized by the World Bank, will soon announce a $900 million loan to finance imports. Mrs. Gandhi makes it clear that the fact that Western bankers approve of her economics does not rob her of in dependence in foreign affairs. Last week she also announced plans for a visit to the Soviet Union in July...
...Saudi Arabia's Islamic calendar, this year is 1386, and visitors to the-desert kingdom often feel that is about where Saudi Arabia stands on the Western calendar. Justice still decrees an eye for an eye. Marriages are arranged sight unseen. A few weeks ago the deputy rector of the Islamic University at Medina even came out in support of a 14th-century theory that the world is flat and mountains are only ballast to keep it from tipping over. But for all this, Saudi Arabia's old ideas and old ways are giving way to the 20th...