Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true fix on the nation's position is the permanent characteristic of the age-the bewildering speed of change. The fact is often stated. But just recognizing it is little help in trying to grasp the impact. In the past three generations, the everyday life of Western man has changed more than it did in the previous 2,000 years. A revolution in farm technology has shifted huge populations into teeming cities. Already 73% of Americans live on only 1% of the land; by 1985, U.S. cities will swell by the equivalent of five New Yorks. Mobility has scattered...
...school in nature, he must rapidly learn and unlearn technical ways that his father did not know and that may prove useless to his children. Religion fell away, while faith in industrial progress became a form of religion-now itself eroded by creeping pessimism. Less than ever before is Western man sure of his own nature, except that he is so adaptable. That quality is all that saves him from the pathological anxiety experienced by tribal Africans exposed too abruptly to technology. It is also what inures him to urban filth and noise and crowding-and doing too little about...
Household Names. Temporarily ruined them, anyway. Knox is now a country-and-western singer in Macon, Ga. And Bowen? He finally settled in Los Angeles, producing recordings rather than performing on them. He did right well, too. During six years as a producer for the Reprise label, he supervised albums that sold 10 million copies and singles that sold 12 million, boosting his income to $500,000 a year. Today, his own six-month-old Amos Productions Inc. is one of the largest independent record-production companies...
...Character. Legman contends that a man's taste in coarse humor is the key to his character, and also reveals the depth of his anxiety about Western civilization's three great sexual hang-ups: venereal disease, homosexuality and castration...
...veins of Americana have been more assiduously mined than the Western fur trade. From Francis Parkman to Bernard De Voto, scholars have unearthed the routes and reminiscences of the "mountain men" in the 19th century, devoting volumes to their exploits. Surprisingly, Novelist and Popular Historian Walter O'Meara's anecdotal appreciation seems to be the first to deal with the lives of the women of the fur traders and mountain men. Not surprisingly, their relationships with women turn out to be as rich and varied as the rest of the mountain legend...