Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense of being flattered that some of us are experiencing over Russia's imitation of Western capitalistic methods [Oct. 8] seems a bit silly. We should congratulate them for realizing that adherence to classical Marxism is a poor way of going about things. At the same time, we should congratulate ourselves for having realized long ago that classical capitalism is not worth adhering to either. We have adopted many socialistic measures, such as the "from each according to his ability" progressive Federal income tax, and the "each according to his need" federal aid to poverty stricken communities, to education...
That would be the unwisest course of all. For in deciding to stand in South Viet Nam, the U.S. means just that After all, we've kept 250,000 men in Western Europe for 20 years," observes a general. "We can wait too." The U.S. also means much more. It means to counter the Red revolution with a genuine revolution in health, education, welfare and self-sufficiency for the Vietnamese that the Communists can hardly be expected to understand. The Communists themselves chose South Viet Nam as their test case and springboard to the conquest of all Southeast Asia...
Because of the "power and integrity" of his epic, And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), the Swedish Academy awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature to Cossack Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, 60. In Moscow the Writers' Union called the award the "rehabilitation of the Nobel Prize." Western critics recalled what the prize was being "rehabilitated" from-the 1958 episode when the party bludgeoned the late Boris Pasternak into "voluntarily" refusing the prize. Sholokhov himself had got in some of the licks, denouncing the Swedes as "unobjective" and belittling the author of Doctor Zhivago as a "hermit crab." Now that...
After sunset on Oct. 20, a strange and luminous object will rise above the western horizon and make a broad sweep across the darkening sky. Beginning as a fuzzy smear of light, it is expected to grow brighter and brighter until its 20 million-mile tail stretches put to look like a new Milky Way; then its head will appear with a light as great as the full moon. As the newly discovered Ikeya-Seki comet makes its rendezvous with the sun, it will curve high above the northern sky in one of the most spectacular celestial shows...
...single small (about 11 in. by 16 in.) sheet of patched and worm-eaten vellum seems humdrum. In reality, it is by far the most important cartographic discovery of this century. It is the first map (see below) ever found that shows any part of the Western Hemisphere before the voyage of Columbus...