Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, day after day, in unremitting, round-the-clock attacks, scores of U.S. airmen carried out such missions, both north and south of the 17th parallel. Rumors of peace talks still wafted from capital to capital. In the U.S., professors at Harvard, Syracuse and Western Reserve universities held all-night "teach-ins," protesting U.S. policies in Viet Nam. Near week's end some 12,000 students staged a peace march in Washington. But in Viet Nam, the U.S. inexorably intensified its war effort, both in the air and on the ground...
...they embrace about 40% of the world's 3.2 billion people. Another 40% live under the "barbary" of totalitarian rule, the rest in political halfway houses. The governments that most closely meet the democratic tests are, of course, concentrated in the U.S., the old British Commonwealth and Western Europe. In the nature of things, none is perfect, and some are deeply troubled. None achieved democracy quickly, easily, or as the gift of any master. Nobles had to bend to kings, kings had to die on the block, and a middle class had to rise from turmoil before the stubborn...
...paradox-the tension between freedom and order, between the individual and society. In many parts of the world, Voltaire's ringing "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is incomprehensible. The sense of individual responsibility that the Western ego has developed over the centuries is missing, and what seems in the West a rather commonplace step-voting and the individual decision that precedes it-can seem in Africa and Asia a lonely and unnatural...
Brown warned against "Protestant pride which says 'at last the Catholics have found out the real truth about the Reformation.'" He said that the Protestants must also admit their responsibility, "remembering that the high, cost of the Reformation was the disruption of Western Christendom...
...State Street, Wall Street, or Easy Street. A nice thought, perhaps; it could be worked up into a dandy epigram, but it hardly seems worth the space. An expert on eastern culture, Mrs. Rudolph would much better have devoted her energy to scoring the nation's universities for Western parochialism...