Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turbulent, ironic mind of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is 1869; the writer is 49, self-exiled in Dresden at mid-career, with Poor Folk and Crime and Punishment behind him and The Brothers Karamazov far in the future. He is a passionate, tormented idealist, still roiled by the Western liberal notions of social and political freedom that had swept the Russian intelligentsia a generation before. But the new, younger Russian intellectuals are not liberals; they are nihilists and anarchists, and Dostoyevsky is repelled and shaken. This ferment will result, two years later, in the towering "pamphlet-novel" variously called The Devils...
...conclusions about the nation's economic security when a few Japanese companies invest in premier American properties. When the Japanese did just that in the late 1980s, investment banker Felix Rohatyn wrote, "What is at stake is not only the loss of our position as the leader of the Western democracies, but the loss of our independence of action both in economic and in foreign policy." Turns out it was just about making deals -- and perhaps not very good ones...
...sooner had Zhirinovsky set foot on U.S. soil than all indecision vanished. The purpose of his visit was nothing less than a complete revamping of his aggressive anti-Western image. He announced that he was "no ! nationalist" and wanted "to be a friend and not an enemy." Listening to the warm message, I found it hard to believe that only a few days before in Moscow, he had been lambasting the U.S. for an alleged plot to destroy Russia, aided by Israel. How had this peddler of intolerance metamorphosed so smoothly into a mild-mannered missionary of goodwill...
...next day Zhirinovsky flew to New York City, where he met TIME editors for a 90-minute interview. While his style retained its hastily applied polish, the words had already returned to the same discordant echoes of Zionist conspiracies and Western plots that punctuate his Moscow street rallies. So much for the makeover...
Zhirinovsky: They are separate forces but they join together, because America gives strong support to Israel and within America itself, the influence of the Jews is very strong. It's well known that finance and the press in America -- and also in Western Europe and Russia -- are controlled by Jews...