Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most important thing about Thich Tri Quang at this juncture in Vietnamese affairs is that he is a genuine political animal of the true native species. Unlike any of his rivals or predecessors in independent Viet Nam, he is untouched by Western tradition or training, proudly parochial, untainted by the embrace of the lycée mandarins. Fiercely nationalistic and xenophobic, he dreams of a return to the golden age of the Ly dynasty (1009-1225), composed of those ardent Buddhists who formed Viet Nam's first stable government and, by pushing out Chinese influence, created a Viet...
...unusual private interview, one of the relatively few he has granted to Western newsmen, Thich Tri Quang talked for an hour last week with TIME Correspondents Frank McCulloch and James Wilde at his Saigon residence, a room in a maternity clinic. The interpreter was Than Trong Hue, a Vietnamese member of the TIME staff, who addressed the monk with the "venerable" title reserved for the Buddhist clergy. Tri Quang was clad in a hospital gown, white pantaloons, and brown leather sandals...
...seemed intent on keeping Catholics of all ranks-as well as others-away. Visas have been denied to the 150 foreign bishops, archbishops and cardinals invited to Czestochowa. Polish tourist offices in Europe and the U.S. have been blandly advising that visas will not be granted to Western pilgrims, who were originally expected to number 3,000,000. One explanation: "The country will already be too full of tourists." As for TV and newspaper coverage, some 125 Western newsmen and TV and radio teams have been refused entry, on the ground that the Polish state press and TV would provide...
Because of the peculiar nature of the product, France's champagne men can almost plot the world's politics and passions by the way their exports run. Unlike the Western nations, for instance, Iron Curtain nations are extra dry. Communist Russians last year ordered only 3,596 bottles, and Hungary popped the fewest corks in Europe, with 2,188 bottles. The Congolese were Africa's heartiest drinkers, with 104,976 bottles, Zambians the most austere, with only 1,344. Nowhere was the contrast more marked than in Viet Nam. South Viet Nam, with undoubted American help, drank...
...moderate socialist leader who tried to avoid bloodshed by promising the Dutch full protection for their vast investments in return for freedom, but was turned down cold, a rejection so embittering to Indonesians that they turned away from Sjahrir's conciliatory position to Sukarno's militant anti-Western leftism; after a long illness; in Zurich, where he had lived since 1965, when Sukarno released him from an eight-year jail term for his continuing pro-West sentiments...