Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WESTERN CONFERENCE...
...national conference hosted by the Harvard Conservative Club, the president of the First Amendment Coalition (FAC) yesterday called on the academic community to focus on "the Western tradition" and not to capitulate to political correctness...
...must immerse ourselves in that great body of literature called the Western tradition, whose...themes are liberty and freedom," said David Gentry, president and co-founder...
...frenzy over multiculturalism, Western culture has been over-shadowed," said G. Brent McGuire '95, president of the Conservative Club, in an interview last night. McGuire was a panel member at the conference...
...fact is hard to face in light of such events as the detention last week of dissident Wei Jingsheng, but it is nevertheless a fact. Like Vietnam, China is setting loose an economic system in which individual effort will yield individual rewards, and it is the commonest truth of Western development that such a system creates the best conditions for individual liberties. Given our heritage and beliefs, America is obliged to encourage that process. In this light, opposition to MFN for China -- as well as, ultimately, for Vietnam -- seems at best to be wrongheaded, and most likely a force...