Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Morocco meant both these things. "This people is wholly antique," he wrote in Tangier; its Arab men and Jewish women -- Arab women were not paintable, since they would not remove their veils for a Western stranger -- possessed, in his eyes, "the majesty which is lacking among ourselves in the gravest circumstances." Years later he confided in a letter to a friend that "it was among these people that I really discovered for myself the beauty of antiquity." And not only of antiquity, either. De Mornay was amused to see that when Delacroix was finally admitted to a harem, he became...
Perhaps the most formidable weapon in the arsenal of the Bosnian Serbs is their singleness of purpose compared to the contradictions dividing the Western allies. Those fault lines were evident again last week. Only a few days after France threatened to withdraw its 4,500 peacekeepers from Bosnia, French Defense Minister Francois Leotard argued for a more aggressive stance against the Bosnian Serbs. Military chiefs will gather in the Hague this week to devise ways to strengthen the U.N. presence -- even as their subordinates continue to draft plans for an evacuation...
...council had actually decided, as opposed to what the ultraliberals claimed it had decided. But coming as he did from a church that had been notably successful in maintaining congregations, recruiting clergy, building churches and enforcing discipline, he was appalled by what was happening in the church, especially in Western Europe and the Americas...
...Nanooks' style of play has been characterized as typically "Western" revolving around more of a physical, clutch-and-grab type of game...
...only solution may be to bring in private capital from abroad by floating stocks and bonds, and Western bankers are ready to help. Says Ray Spitzley, executive director of Morgan Stanley Asia in Hong Kong: "China has evolved into a credit-worthy country that can tap world markets." Maybe so, but the poor showing of the few stocks traded internationally has made investors skittish. Eager to make their securities more attractive, Chinese officials are talking with the World Bank about setting up a Chinese National Power and Development Fund that would sell bonds backed by the bank to private investors...