Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their food. They are offered it willingly and graciously by people who, in so doing, gain "merit" to augment their spiritual lives. Second, Udorn, Ubon and the parts of Bangkok that are neon-lit especially to indulge U.S. servicemen are to many other peoples an indictment of Western civilization. American-style nightclubs, restaurants and bowling alleys tend to disrupt longestablished, often exquisitely delicate patterns of life. For this we will increasingly be asked to answer. Third, the insect sauce is delicious with roast chicken...
Passive Partnership. In the hope that De Gaulle did not really intend to desert NATO, the Allies refrained from forcing a showdown. After all, from a purely military point of view, even a passive partnership was preferable to French neutrality-which would cut the Western alliance in two, isolate each of its three Mediterranean members from West Germany, Britain, Benelux and Scandinavia...
From NATO's viewpoint, De Gaulle could hardly be considered the great European unifier. If anything, he was the grand Charley horse in the Western alliance. What preoccupied last week's Brussels conference, in fact, was his abrupt decision to separate French troops from NATO control and expel NATO troops from France. He had even given SHAPE its eviction notice...
After a decade of mere talk about autonomy from West Pakistan, political leaders of East Pakistan took matters into their own hands last week and, in a violent 24-hour strike by thousands of workingmen, underlined their demands for freedom from President Mohammed Ayub Khan's western seat of power. The Easterners have a point. The two sections of the country, separated by nearly 1,000 miles of Indian territory, share neither borders nor cultures. West Pakistan is Middle Eastern, hot and dry in climate, puritanical in morals, warlike in manners, and multilingual. East Pakistan smacks of the Orient...
...says, "I made a special trip to London to see a .great exhibit of Chinese art there. British experts had brought a whole gunboat load back. Seeing that drove the last nail in my coffin. I've been broke ever since." Now, because of Brundage, the Western world has a rare chance to study the artistic richness of the Orient...