Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gift, which was explicitly designed to support the study of Western Civilization, originally provoked controversy when it was announced amidst liberal jeers...
...common for the liberal intelligentsia to condemn "Western Civilization" as nothing but a euphemism for white male oppression--everything that we should be expunging from our racist, sexist, homophobic society...
...infamous 1991 speech to the incoming class, Kagan, who was then Yale college dean, offered some rare wisdom: it is "both right and necessary to place Western Civilization and the culture to which it has given rise, at the center of our studies, and we fail to do so at the peril of our students, our country, and the hopes for a democratic, liberal society...
...mother remarried about two years later, and the family moved to the Detroit suburbs, where Allen struggled through high school and barely made it to college. He graduated from Western Michigan University with a degree in TV production, but not long after, got caught up in drugs. He fell in with a fast, hard-partying crowd, started selling cocaine, and in 1979 was arrested and later sentenced to eight years in a minimum-security federal penitentiary in Minnesota...
...humiliating failure for the U.N. and the Western allies...