Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group composed its own song after stopping in Washington DC to visit Walsh's Aunt Nan, who was not home. Sitting on the curb outside Aunt Nan's house, the group wrote a fictional country-western song whose lyrics included, "There's shit in my peanut butter." A debate over whether to use a knife or spoon to spread the peanut butter on the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches they were eating (courtesy of HDS) inspired the group's songwriting effort. "At that point, we had not been sleeping a lot," Philipp said...
...sponsored by the Institute of Politics and titled "AIDS in Developing Countries and the Western Response," the conference aims to foster awareness about the AIDS crisis in the developing world and the West's role in ameliorating that crisis...
...years after his death must tell us something about the soul of post-modern America. And perhaps it does, says TIME's Richard Schickel. "But by the end of his confused and digressive meditation this usually mordant cultural historian looks rather like a second heavy in a Wayne western--rubbing his jaw and spitting dust as the Duke?s shade strides off toward the horizon, as impervious to academic analysis as he was to a bad man?s six-shooter." Wills thinks Wayne remains a psychic presence for us because he embodied the frontiersman?s virtues, a free man ranging...
...first appearance of the "clean line" style of Herge, the creator and artist of the now-institutionalized mystery/adventure comic "Tintin," starring the plucky boy reporter and his faithful dog, Snowy. The influence of Herge's style has persisted through half a century and has influenced artists throughout the Western European cultural sphere. For demonstration, the exhibit offers thoughtfully selected examples by artists from Holland, Italy, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Spain...
Traditionally in Western literature, springtime is a time of growth and of love and of renewal; Tennyson writes, "In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." Clearly, Tennyson never experienced March Madness...