Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STALKING MOON. Stalwart Gregory Peck battles a crazed redskin bent on bloody revenge in this rather self-conscious western thriller that manages a few surprises on its way to a predictable denouement...
...general, the U.S. orbit of protection is extremely limited, and the closer a threatened country is to the U.S. the more concerned Americans are with helping to defend it against aggression. North America, and South America to a lesser extent, seems to Americans worth defending, as does Western Europe. Otherwise, however, more Americans than not would rather that the U.S. stay out, except for Asian areas with an obvious special interest for the U.S.-South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. Only a minority would give U.S. assistance in a crisis to such third-world nations as India...
...recent appearance at Harvard, Calkins has often given the impression of being Representative Mid-western Man. He constantly punctuates his speeches with references to conditions back home in Cleveland. Some of his television talks here have left audiences wondering if Calkins is able to think about Harvard events without translating them into Cleveland-school-board analogies...
While in college, Benti did part-time broadcasting, later worked at TV stations from Missouri to California. He settled down at Los Angeles KNXT, a CBS-owned-and-operated station, where he became political editor. He chaired the Western Regional Desk during the network's election coverage in 1968, and was heard by millions as anchor man on the news reports following the murder of Senator Robert Kennedy...
...teen-age son Tony-a kind of befuddled blessedness. It is a quality not unlike Billy Budd's, all the more vulnerable because it is unaware of evil. "Nailles thought of pain and suffering," Cheever writes, "as a principality lying somewhere beyond the legitimate borders of western Europe...