Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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History 10: "Western Societies, Politics and Cultures," could be the second introductory class to join the core. Literature and Arts B-10: "Art and the Visual Culture: Introduction to the Historical Study of Art and Architecture," formerly Fine Arts 13, was modified and added the core curriculum this fall...
...haven't seen a proposal that addressed all our concerns," says Professor of History William E. Gienapp, who is a member of the Historical Studies B subcommittee of the core committee. "Regular Western Civ would not meet [the core guidelines...
Fine Arts 13, though still an introductory class, now includes non-Western forms of art like Indian and Japanese classics. It is now "more thematic than chronological," Professor of Fine Arts Irene J. Winter said earlier this fall...
...fate, however, is hardly to be lamented. The TV-size budget, for one thing, has forced director Christopher Menaul (Prime Suspect) to be resourceful. Instead of a lavish (and possibly campy) physical re- creation of the new Greater Germany, he suggests it in small, swift strokes. Tour buses carrying Western reporters on their first visit since the war roll past billboards touting one-world harmony and vacations in "Paris, Germania." (There's also an ad for the Beatles; those Hamburg clubs apparently survived.) The country is repressive and regimented, but the "Heil Hitlers" have grown routine and less convincing...
...opportunity of a pact with Syria. Even with Israel at peace with its other neighbors, Syria might seek to undermine the existing agreements if it remains the only state on Israel's borders still at war with it. Peace with Syria would also calm the region, help secure Western access to Middle East oil at reasonable prices and further isolate Iraq and Iran, the bad actors supporting the world's worst terrorists...