Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROUNDERS. This amiable western spoof is enlivened by Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford as a team of shiftless bronco-busters trapped in a love-hate relationship with an obstreperous horse...
...communications explosion seems to have much deeper consequences in this century than you imply. Radio and television have begun to dominate and to replace the press. Satellite communication is merely one more step toward the ultimate demise of the printed word in Western society...
...time now the U.S. has not been a place that intellectuals flee from, but a place they flee to. Britain's C. P. Snow has summed it up: "During the past 20 years, the U.S. has done something like 80% of the science and scholarship of the entire Western world." Chicago Economist George Stigler guesses that in the Athens of Pericles, full-time intellectuals numbered only about 200, or one for every 1,500 persons; he puts the number in the U.S. today at around a million, or about one for every 200 persons...
...artists and writers was the scheduled departure for Italy last week of controversial Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, who plans a month's poetry-reading tour. It was the first time he had been allowed outside the Soviet Union since 1963, when he roamed through France and West Germany, delighting Western literary circles with his outspoken views, or, as the Kremlin later put it, his "cheap sensationalism...
...Said the Chattanooga Times: "President Johnson took a bold step, one fraught with difficulties and even dangers, but he had the same solid reason of which Mr. Kennedy spoke -the security of our nation." Agreed the Chicago Daily News: "The Dominican rebellion forced President Johnson to decide whether the Western Hemisphere was threatened by another Cuba. He decided it was. Let those who did not have his information or responsibility decide that he was wrong; that is the luxury of the spectator...