Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pacesetter in scholarly gamesmanship is the San Diego public school system, where Project SIMILE of La Jolla's Western Behavioral Sciences Institute has enticed 2,000 junior and senior high school students to pit wits against one another in four types of games. In one, called "Napoli," they play the roles of legislators who are equipped with opinion polls showing how their constituents feel about such issues as medicare, tax reduction and subsidies for the poor. As bills on these issues move through the legislature, each player has to make choices between his principles and what he thinks...
Whatever other differences Stalin and Khrushchev might have had, they were of like mind on one issue: they liked hummable music. In 1948, Russia's leading composers were summoned to a meeting and warned of the evils of the unmelodious music of Western modernists. Stick to "socialist realism," they were told. Under Nikita, the malady lingered on. Said he: "We flatly reject this cacophony music. Our people cannot use this rubbish as a tool of their ideology...
...apparently, the Kremlin has permitted a trade of the tools. In the past few years an impressive group of young avant-garde composers have blossomed in the Soviet Union. Last week Composer Boris Tishchenko made his first trip outside Russia to hear the Western premiere of his atonal Concerto Grosso at the annual spring festival in Prague...
...speech was the idea of Allen Peltier, a Nashville newscaster, who got indignant at draft-card burners a few months ago. Now Warner Bros, has recorded it with a country-and-Western singer named Johnny Sea in the speaking part. Released on May 13, the record sold more than 250,000 copies in two weeks...
...affection" and "respect" for the German people. Shortly before the fall of France, Diego von Bergen, the German Ambassador to the Vatican, wrote to Berlin that high-placed officials of the Holy See had assured him that they wanted the Allies to accept a negotiated peace on the Western front. In August 1943, the new German Ambassador to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, told Berlin that in Rome, "Bolshevism is the greatest cause of concern." Friedlander is aware that the Nazi archives are incomplete but could find only three ineffectual and half-hearted inquiries by the Vatican nuncio...