Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans, from House Leader Ford to Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, have taken pains to dissociate the G.O.P. from the extremist John Birch Society. G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss read the Birchites out of the party again last week during the biennial Western...
Error & Ire. The failure of the long-awaited Afro-Asian Conference in Al giers last week was one more step toward an end to that grandiose dream of the underdeveloped nations: a unified, hard-hitting "third world" of Africans and Asians dedicated to fight "Western imperialism" and further "nonalignment." The meeting failed ostensibly because its membership could not clearly decide on the question of Russian attendance as a fellow "Afro-Asian" nation. Actually, the conference was killed by Red China, whose intransigent leaders could not bear to sit down with the despised "revisionists" of Moscow, and who were equally unsure...
...broad shift in expenditure from private consumption to investment will require further sacrifices from the entire country. The standard of living in Britain will fall in comparison to the U.S. and western Europe, and few voters will resist the temptation to blame Labour. Despite Wilsons appeal for "consent and consensus" and his support for housing subsidies and the Ombudsman, his popularity will decline...
Lost Roots. Trusting that point perhaps too uncritically, Author Porter in her late 40s rashly abandoned her emotional roots and hurled her energies into a grandiose allegory intended to explain "the majestic and terrible failure of the life of man in the western world." What she achieved, and it cost her 20 years to achieve it, is embodied in Ship of Fools-a book that is magnificently ingenious but coldly calculated, loveless and finally unbelievable. It is Katherine Anne Porter's tragedy that at the climax of her creative life, she shunted herself onto a sidetrack and went careering...
...love repressed in their childhood, naturally. Hero Wylie understands their problems, but when they start an affair, he burns his notes and walks out. The reader may have beaten him to the exit. Prophet Wylie's inexhaustible choler dismisses with equal contempt sexual inhibition, racism, beehive hairdos, Middle Western accents and piped music. Perhaps it is time that a kindly cop asked him, gently, to move along...