Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country just beginning to debate universal health care, Americans have long wondered how their allies across the Atlantic have managed to enjoy government benefits far beyond U.S. dreams. Now Western Europeans are discovering a brutal truth: they can not afford them either. Everywhere on the Continent, the public and private welfare system is under assault. Governments are seeking to cut back womb-to-tomb protection for workers and the jobless, for mothers and children, for pensioners, the sick and the disabled. Companies pressed by global competition are trimming benefits. The steadily expanding safety net that had been...
...learned early on that the great composers like Mozart and Beethoven were also terrific improvisers, Fox said. He described how jazz music has moved in one century through all of the phases that Western classical music did in three, progressing from folk expression to avant-garde experimentation. Fox feels that jazz, like current classical music, sacrifices originality for technical perfection. He emphasized that "Jazz is about exploring," and that this element must be preserved. Theory and form should take a backseat to creativity, explained Fox, and he offered his paraphrase of Stravinsky as evidence: "Stravinsky said, `I like this chord...
Show Business: The western's back, but not the West...
...talk about stretching NATO's front line has touched off an intense debate inside the Clinton Administration. In general the Pentagon opposes the rapid inclusion of Eastern states on military grounds, while the State Department tends to view such inclusion as a mechanism for advancing democracy, market economics and Western values...
...novel's major puzzles are why Brennan, the tough old cop on the surveillance team, has gone wrong after a good career; and why Harry Dell'Appa, the smart, cocky young cop, was banished to the Siberia of western Massachusetts. When Dell'Appa finally figures things out, it's clear that Brennan explained himself in the first few sentences he spoke and that Dell'Appa isn't the only smart, ruthless member of his own family. The novel is mannered and the narration moves crabwise, and some readers may bail out. The rest of us may agree that this...