Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...playing around with a lion." So saying, he reshuffled his Cabinet, putting pro-West moderates into all posts formerly held by Odinga's left-wingers. His final stroke was to name Foreign Minister Joseph Murumbi as his new Vice President. Murumbi, a sometime leftist whose occasional anti-Western statements have angered Kenyatta in the past, is nevertheless absolutely loyal-and, unlike Odinga, has no pretensions to the presidency. From now on, Kenyatta himself will handle his nation's foreign affairs...
...score a major diplomatic victory. De Gaulle is due in Moscow in June, and a report raced through Eastern European capitals last week that the Soviets intended to call a major conference of their satellites after De Gaulle leaves, in order to plan a joint diplomatic offensive against Western Europe. Obviously the Russians would like to use De Gaulle's abiding fear of a resurgent Germany and his desire to banish Anglo-Saxon influence from the Continent to achieve the old goals of Soviet policy: 1) a settlement in Central Europe along lines of a neutralized, disarmed Germany...
Eastern Hopes. Maybe so. But the people who were happy last week about the new Soviet diplomatic offensive were not the Western Europeans but rather the Eastern Europeans. The reason was not at all flattering to the Russians. The main thing that the people of the East saw in a relaxation of tensions between East and West was a mutual pullback of U.S. and Soviet troops from Central Europe that would rid their countries for the first time in 21 years of the unwanted presence of the Red army...
...Sail was forged in France in 35 pieces. Its 27-ton bulk took a ton and a half of nuts and bolts to hold it together and a four-ton concrete foundation. At present, it is the largest Calder in the Western Hemisphere. But not for long. The silver-haired tinker is already at work on a 65-ft.-high by 94-ft-wide stabile in unpainted stainless steel, to be set on an island in the St. Lawrence in time for the 1967 Montreal World's Fair. Its name...
...time Gauguin arrived in 1891, his style had already been formed, his competence proved; nothing he did thereafter materially changed or improved either. Seeking in a Rousseauean state of nature the simple truths he wanted to paint, Gauguin found instead a culture already changed by a century of Western influences. Papeete, the capital, was any ugly French town. Gauguin's models dressed more decorously than he: when he bathed in the raw, a gendarme fined him for indecent exposure...