Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western military observers, who have been as frustrated as newsmen in getting to the front lines, are not at all convinced. Contrasting the claims of both sides, one expert said, "the figures just don't match-one or the other must be totally off." And, despite the joy in New Delhi at its army's great tank victory, the awkward fact was that Pakistan still held Kasur...
...case anyone still wondered what policies Rajaratnam would be promoting, after Lee's triple-barreled anti-U.S. blast last month (TIME, Sept. 10), the Prime Minister also called in a couple of Western newsmen and described anew the catastrophe that would result if the U.S. ever took over from the British out his way. This time he had a truly sensational alternative to propose. If Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman ever called on U.S. forces to replace the British in neighboring Malaysia, said Lee, "I'm telling the Tunku that I would consider offering Singapore...
Women throw books of poetry to him and propose marriage in dozens of letters each week. Fan clubs pay tribute to him throughout Western Europe. He has starred in two hit movies, one of them about himself, and earned more money ($10 million) than it cost to build the Spanish Armada. In July, he became the fourth matador in this century to be allowed to spare the life of his bull. In August, he became the first in history to fight 31 corridas in one month. And, barring illness or injury, by this time next month the mop-haired...
...their background. When you thought of the typical writers of the Twenties, you thought of rebels from 'good' families -Dos Passes, Hemingway, Fitzgerald Cummings, Wilson, Cowley. The Thirties were the age of the plebes-of writers from the working class, the immigrant class, the nonliterate class, from Western farms and mills-those whose struggle was to survive...
Asia is the elephant of continents, and Western visitors are like the blind men of the legend: each finds a different Asia and thinks it is the only one. Recent visitors, of course, have experienced an elephant on the rampage; their reports are exciting but often lack depth. To restore perspective is the purpose of this treatise by Dr. Jean Herbert, a professor of Oriental studies at the University of Geneva. The author's learning is formidable and his style a pleasure, but even after 40 years of study, he cannot quite manage to see the elephant whole...