Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Embarrassing as it was, the election breakdown looked far more serious to Western eyes than it did to the Congolese or the African observers. "We have had such difficulties in my country too," said a tactful Nigerian representative, and Zambia's Ambassador Timothy Kankassa allowed that it could have happened anywhere. Even Tshombe seemed unperturbed, and for good reason: after a two-week offensive in the northeast, his mercenary-led army was doing better than ever in the struggle against the Communist-backed rebels...
...that Asian spiritualism is superior to the rationalism of the West. Gandhi liked to call for spiritual tranquillity. "Virtue," he preached, "lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise." Spirituality has proved powerless to return rioting mobs to their prayers, while Western rationalism in Asia has been equally unable to mute the "din and noise" of communal clashes...
Unfortunately, in the past the Western colonial powers often used communal hatreds to rule, by playing nationalities and races against one another. Says Professor Theodore Hsi-En Chen of the University of Southern California, "From China to Indonesia, nationalism in Asia is totally negative; it expresses deep-seated hatred of anything resembling foreign control." This applies to control by other Asians as well. While such antagonism would exist even without Communism, the Reds exploit it. The small Communist organizations in Cambodia and Thailand are recruited mainly from long-suffering minority Vietnamese. The Malayan Communist Party, which fought a twelve-year...
...Andes are young and violent mountains, not yet fully grown or pacified by time. Still-active volcanoes pock the spiny range running the length of western South America. Avalanches rumble down constantly from the 20,000-ft. peaks. And beneath the earth's jagged crust, fantastic forces grind and churn, producing violent earthquakes-most often in Chile. Of the thousands of big and little tremors recorded around the world each year, about 15% occur in Chile. One quake in 1906 took 3,000 lives. Another in 1939 left 30,000 dead. Five years ago, still another killed...
...Florence Britten's Youth and Sex (1938) for the earlier periods, and Kinsey's interview-based statistics on sexual practices through the late '40s. As for the present, Sanford and a team of researchers from Stanford interviewed girls at an Eastern women's college, a Western public university and a Western private university. At each, the team followed a random sample of women through their full four years, quizzed them four or five times a year. Insists Sanford: "We got to know them as well as our own daughters-or better. We are reasonably certain...