Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what might be called a consuming interest in agriculture. After one magnificent dinner at the Shuman farm, both White and his subject had to suspend the interview for an afternoon nap. Researcher Pat Gordon, who comes from Houston and remembers pleasant vacations on her grandfather's ranch in western Texas, is now trying her luck with avocado plants in her apartment in Manhattan...
...visit to Fredericksburg, Va., by Lyndon's father; and a four-foot-high street-refuse bin decorated with photographs of Lady Bird's various trips around the country to encourage roadside-beautification projects. Lynda Bird gave him a photograph album from her travels in the Western U.S. this summer, and Luci Baines presented him with a white leather-bound volume of poems that she has written since she was a child. Typical of Luci's lyrics for Lyndon...
...with a gracious bow to their "learned friend" across the way. The contrasts, vividly symbolic of Africa in the 1960s, were underlined by the subject of the proceedings: a federal investigation of the Owegbe cult, accused of using juju (magic) to try to overthrow the government of the Mid-Western province, smallest of Nigeria's four regions...
Fleshing Out Saints. Until the late 8th century, Western art lay largely under the influence of Byzantium, whose hovering saints were stripped of flesh, transcendentally vaporous, symbols of life beyond death. So otherworldly was Byzantine art that by the time Charlemagne was crowned, images of the sacred figures had been banned for 74 years. Eastern iconoclasm had emphatically blotted out the Greco-Roman exaltation of living man. The new Carolingian Emperor personally set about to change the art of his times...
Giving a vast assist to the U.S. balance of payments (see U.S. BUSINESS), U.S. farmers last year exported to Western Europe $1.4 billion worth of everything from soybeans to turkeys, and so far this year have matched that record pace. Helped along by European shortages of beef and pork, exports of U.S. meat have gone from $51 million to $74 million in a year. Tobacco and cotton have swung upward from $236 million to $295 million. The greatest increase was in animal feeds (from $521 million to $672 million), which ironically can only serve to reduce U.S. meat sales. Even...