Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historicity, and the Pope seems ready to jettison whatever and whoever did not "actually happen." It looks like a watershed: either much more will have to be dumped, or a return to a crude fundamentalism is in the works. Either way the Catholic Church is once more banking on Western man's visceral reluctance to stomach ahistorical myth...
...move reflected a growing Soviet campaign to choke off contacts between foreign newsmen and Soviet citizens, most notably the intellectuals who some times slip protest manifestoes to Western journalists. Since last April, Shub and the New York Times' 's Henry Kamm have been barred from traveling beyond a 25-mile radius from Moscow...
...That brought down the thunderbolts," said Shub after he flew out to London. The article focused on the threat of war with China and speculated that the dissident minority groups in the Soviet Union's western borderlands might seize the opportunity to revolt against Soviet rule. In other articles, Shub has delineated the possible power struggles within the Kremlin and described the plight of the Soviet intellectuals, with whom he has close ties...
...shorthand of introductory history courses, Western civilization lapsed into a dark night of the soul with the fall of the Roman Empire, to re-emerge in Italy hundreds of years later during the Renaissance. As scholars have long known, that formula was never entirely true, but it was tidy enough to shape the thought of a schoolboy. In the true sense of the meaning of Renaissance, it can be argued, an earlier rebirth occurred at the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th centuries. The age produced in its cathedrals perhaps the greatest architecture yet contrived...
Though the end contains a ritual slaughter, it comes too late to save the project. The western is essentially a naive art. When it tries for sophistication it collapses into self-mockery, like a cowpoke dressed by Cardin...