Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope of forcing Hanoi to realize the folly of continuing the war and to sit down to talk. That failed; so all through the summer of last year the President weighed the obvious alternative: a cessation of bombing to encourage Hanoi to discuss peace. Moscow, Peking, Hanoi, and even Western European capitals kept insisting that the sine qua non of opening communications with Hanoi was a stop to the bombing. Last May the U.S. tried a five-day pause. It produced not a single "signal" of a softening on the Communist side, but critics both at home and abroad replied...
...Friday, Jews on Saturday, Christians on Sunday-a situation that could conceivably lead to an ecumenical three-day weekend for all. In Saudi Arabia and Libya, Friday is kept strictly as Allah's day and Sunday is a normal work day; but in half-Christian Lebanon and Western-influenced Syria and Turkey, many Moslem businessmen close down on Friday only long enough to visit their mosques, although they shut down completely on Sunday. Jordan's government offices in Amman close on Friday, but in Jordanian Jerusalem, one of Christianity's most holy places, Sunday is generally observed...
Growing up in Cleveland, Seltzer did not have any particular reason to like his city. His father, a carpenter who wrote 49 Western novels in his spare time, was almost penniless. Louis had to quit school in the seventh grade to take a job as office boy for the now vanished Cleveland Leader. Within a year, he was writing his own light Sunday column, "By Luee, The Offis Boy." But at 15 he was already a has-been. His city editor fired him and told him he was not fit for journalism...
...indication that their huge gamble will ultimately pay off. What they are playing for is a major gas field -some think it may prove to be the world's biggest-that is located on the very doorstep of one of the world's fastest growing energy markets: Western Europe...
Hard Choice. Mandelstam could have had an easy life if he had wanted one. Born in 1891, he was the only son of a wealthy Jewish merchant. His father treated him to a grand tour of Western Europe before sending him to the University of St. Petersburg and offered young Osip a safe future in the leather business. But Osip opted for the dangerous life of letters, and his father cut him off without a ruble. Nothing daunted, Osip moved in with the Acmeists, a stubborn little literary sect centered in St. Petersburg and set up in opposition...