Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field and will continue to be influential, I don't believe it will become the dominant paradigm, nor do I think that statistical studies are the only way to study politics," says Professor of Government Peter A. Hall, who studies comparative political economy with an emphasis on Western Europe...
Cajete closed by describing a trend in contemporary Western educational practices. Educators today, he said, emphasize "holistic learning" and "cultural contextualism." These ideas, Cajete said, are integral to indigenous education...
...Indigenous educational theories are being recycled in contemporary Western educational philosophy," Cajete said. He said he believes indigenous communities need to assert themselves in this period of change in education...
...which had a successful run last spring in Miami--and so has Randy Newman, whose musical version of Faust is shopping for a new venue after stagings in La Jolla and Chicago. Even country star Garth Brooks is reported by Variety to be mulling a musical based on the western movie Shane...
...Charles Ives, drawing on the vernacular only to subvert it with a big, blatting off-key note. Like the brave soldier who spreads his battlefield picnic on a fallen foe's body; the beautiful blond whose wig falls off in a fight to reveal a perfectly bald pate; the western hero who coolly plugs his lover when the bad guy tries to use her as a shield in a gun fight. Sam didn't strain for these bold, indelible moments. They just came naturally to him. Haute Hollywood patronized him--low budgets, no Oscars--and the dominant middlebrow critics...