Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asking uncomfortable questions. Oglesby began his speech. Thursday night by exploring the humane, liberal vision which leads good men to wage war in Vietnam. From this view point, we stand as a nation which endured the burdens of the Cold War in the 1950's in order to protect Western Europe and ourselves from the "social acid" of Communism. After 1962, the metabolism of the Cold War changed: for both the U.S. and the USSR, international politics became gradually secularized. The metaphysical became negotiable, the abhorrent understandable, to the extent that we could tacitly accept the Cuban revolution while...
...full of beauty. Red Desert is the best parallel I can think of for its consistently dazzling composition. Mann's use of Western landscape has won him the adulation of French critics, some of whom vote his Man of the West one of the all time greats. In Telemark, he is working with snowcapes, and he proves his versatility beyond question...
...which Ulbricht's cynicism reminded them of Adolf Eichmann's offer during World War II to swap Jews for trucks. There is also clear reluctance to upset the East Germans, who might end the arrangement if it proved embarrassing. So deep is this reluctance, in fact, that Western authorities have been cracking down hard on Westerners seeking to assist in the escapes of East Berliners. Last week three West Germans who helped East Germans dressed in U.S. uniforms make it through the Wall to the West were rewarded with stiff jail sentences by West German courts...
...insult has become a familiar courtroom character. But this time the roles were reversed. The editor was suing one of his readers. And to add to the novelty, the editor won. Bill McGaw, owner, editor, publisher and principal reporter of the Southwesterner claimed that his monthly journal of Western lore had been damaged by the actions of Alamogordo, N. Mex., Furniture Dealer A. A. Webster Jr.. a member of the John Birch Society. And a jury agreed -to the amount...
...shock of silver-white hair and a mustache to match, Bill McGaw, 51, does not usually concern himself with current events. He likes to roam the West, tracking down such legends as the saga of the one-woman bawdyhouse in Columbus, N. Mex. Along the way he collects Western relics, including the stagecoach that may have carried President Polk to his inauguration. In July 1963 he learned that the New Mexico Press Association had held a dinner in honor of defeated' California Congressman John Rousselot, who is presently the public relations director of the John Birch Society. McGaw suddenly...