Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Instruction book for this year, the Core "does not define intellectual breadth as the mastery of a set of Great Books...rather, the Core seeks to introduce students to the major approaches to knowledge." This means that a Historical Studies Core will not be a comprehensive survey of Western Europe but will focus on an individual time period or culture to highlight historical transitions more specifically, as a survey course cannot...
...Postman is a Western fairy tale, so the enemy is, predictably enough, a white supremacist militia. Known as the Holnist Army, this mounted horde is meant to recall an army of Huns, but comes off looking like a collection of highly regimented hoboes (all of that matted facial hair, along with an uninspired dress code, doesn't help matters). The Holnists are led by one General Bethlehem (Will Patton), a ruthless former copy machine sales clerk who found his true calling in fascist leadership after nuclear war vaporized society. Because he knows five or six lines of Shakespeare...
...true that China is still struggling to upgrade basic research," he says. "But there are growing numbers of labs in China supported by Western foundations and collaborating with Western institutions. And lots of pharmaceutical companies have operations in China...
...built on the National Mall remains strong. This seems a fairly harmless gesture that might be valuable if it actually served as a balm for the historical wound. Critics point out that space on the Mall will rapidly run out if we construct a monument for every crime that western society has committed on its rise to hegemony...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER 1944 Launching the reconquest of Western Europe...