Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most classical composers are just a few of the staggering number of items mentioned. Delbanco likes allusions in English, but he loves them in foreign languages. Most European tongues are represented in Old Scores, had the book been any longer Delbanco would have had to use some non-Western quotes for variety. Rather than adding to the texture of the book, they merely provide a superficial veneer of erudition...
...this arena either. After a rendition of "Wash Me Clean," a song about "tarnished dreams," lang joked, "I promised that, no matter how tough things got, we would never sell that song to a detergent company!" Her description of the distance between two lovers in Chris Isaak's "Western Stars," from her country album Shadowlands, was also magnificent. But the audience's unquestionable favorite was her version of Roy Orbison's "Crying," in which she lamented at what seems sometimes to be a universal female condition: "I love you even more/than I did before/Oh darling what can I do/Now...
...notion of the independent judiciary was not invented by the Western world," she said. "It was invented right here in Massachusetts by John Adams...
...Chinese model is more horrible than that of the U.S., but only by degree. As for religious freedom, many Islamic regions of China are given partial autonomy. The religion that is truly persecuted is Christianity, perhaps because it is often associated with the greatest humiliations of modern Chinese history: Western Imperialism, opium and broken treaties. China finally recovered the last pieces of territory taken from it by the West this July...
...justifying religious persecution or trying to make Western nations feel guilty for mercantilist policies; I am pointing out that there are deep historical reasons for China to be distrustful of Christianity. It is questionable whether the American view of individual human rights is fully compatible with highly collective Chinese culture. The philosophy behind Chinese law and society is "Rights for the group before rights for the individual." American law is based on the opposite idea but is not inherently any more justifiable. Intellectuals in China, who have some exposure to Western culture, often fight for individual human rights, but this...