Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international reputation and association with Western musicians like Yehudi Menuhin and former Beatle George Harrison (with whom Shankar appeared at the Woodstock festival in 1969) have contributed to increasing the popularity of Indian music in the West...
...Stanford, the cradle of the expression "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western culture's got to go," interest in the debate seems to have peaked, even among the activists. Andrew J. Dworkin, news editor at The Stanford Daily, says that the newest ethnic club on campus is an Irish-American society and that most people remain unsure whether organizers are joking...
...revealing as what the two men say is what they won't say, or simply can't remember. Epstein seems hazy on the basic details of his involvement with the two companies, Western Consulting Group Inc. and Western Business Investors Inc., including whether or not he was the founder of Western Consulting...
...Secretary is doing for the next two days that's more important than lobbying Congress." Working from White House lists of undecided lawmakers, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy telephoned farm-state Representatives. Defense Secretary Les Aspin worked Congressmen with major military installations in their states. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt buttonholed Western lawmakers. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen reasoned with the Texas delegation. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor concentrated on Californians. During the next two days, the Clinton Administration bought, rented and bartered for every vote it could find. One Cabinet officer described his mission plainly: "Find out what these Congressmen want...
That statement may sound modest, even servile, to Western ears, but in Japan the reaction was quite different. In the last clause, Owada had dared to say in public that she sought fulfillment in her own terms. To young women -- and many men -- that came close to calling for a new covenant. Marriage is not necessarily an attractive prospect to an educated woman, especially one of the growing number who, like Owada, have lived part of their childhood abroad and have a wider and more cosmopolitan experience than most Japanese...