Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartlett peacefully surrendered to the officer on the corner of Memorial Drive and Western Ave., where the taxi came to a halt...
...after the Iraqi Revolutionary Council answered al-Majid's request for a pardon with the vague promise that he would be treated like "an ordinary citizen." Even though Al-Majid's defection last August to Jordan was considered a blow to Saddam's regime, al-Majid was ignored by Western governments and the Iraqi dissidents he had hoped to lead. He lived in isolation in a palace outside Amman as a guest of the Jordanian monarchy. He said he left Iraq disgusted with the regime's "savagery" and "oppression", but returned because he became "bad tempered" and "homesick." "Al-Majid...
UNTIL ABOUT 1880, THE ACCEPTed epic subject of American painting was the Western frontier. By 1900 this had slid into nostalgia; it was no longer in synch with social reality. Most Americans lived in cities, and the myth of the West was just that: a myth, however durable. The real frontier was urban--a place of hitherto unimagined overcrowding, of cultural collision enforced by huge-scale immigration, of rapid change, where class ground against class like the imperfect rollers of a giant machine. Its epitome was New York City--Bagdad-on-the-Subway, as the writer O. Henry called...
...taste for recreational drugs. The game as Wallace portrays it is a good illustration of the paradox that there is no freedom without rules and limits. But where mindless circuitry and drugs prevail, human connections break and emotional blindness ensues. Gone too is that key imperative of Western civilization, "Know thyself." Hal, ever the global-village explainer, logs his own symptoms: a feeling of emptiness and an inability to feel pleasure. He also notes another mark of this equal-opportunity disorder: the sort of icy sophistication that often hides fears of social and intellectual embarrassment...
...Bible, so powerful and rich in their original context as inspired writings, have been made into musical soap operas. While it seems that Chirkov is an accomplished director in his own country--a 40-year-veteran of stage and film in Ukraine, he is almost unknown in the Western Hemisphere--he lacks a sense of the sacred in his play-writing. The story of Genesis and the events following it are given superficial treatment, and nothing more. At times, especially when dealing with such powerful material, imagination and novelty are not the only attributes needed for a theatrical production...