Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directed admissions at the Law School for 17 years will leave Harvard to become dean of the Western Reserve Law School in Cleveland...
Toepfer, who will begin his new job July 1, described the Western Reserve Law School as "a small school at the threshold of considerable growth change." With only an acting dean, it has lacked leadership for several years, he said. Now, he explained, the university has decided to provide "much-needed resources for the law school to grow, develop, and flourish...
According to his journal, Penkovsky approached Western sources-both in Moscow and abroad-many times before he convinced the West that he was a legitimate informer. His reasons: sheer hatred of Nikita Khrushchev, coupled with fear of thermonuclear war. Once in the confidence of the West, Penkovsky turned his embittered talents to transmitting everything he knew to the West. Penkovsky's contact was Greville Wynne, a businessman and go-between for British intelligence who served as Penkovsky's chief courier...
Today, throughout the Western world and especially in America, man's attitude toward the mystery of death is making a break with human tradition. Medically, death seems to be constantly receding, and some scientists think seriously about an almost indefinite life span for man (the late Norbert Wiener, for one, was horrified at the prospect of the overcrowded world this might bring about). Socially, the rites of death and mourning, except at those rare times when whole nations hear the muffled drums for a Churchill or a Kennedy, are growing more impersonal and grudging. Religiously, the promise of immortality...
Edward Bernstein, one of President Johnson's chief advisors on monetary reform, predicted Wednesday that "within 18 months" the leading western industrial countries will agree on a plan to reorganize the world's monetary system...