Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first Jack seems a bit trite because of his fabled old Western dialect of cute truisms and botched verbs, his "aw-shucks" likeability and his emphasis on his honest-to-God credibility. I was a bit critical about what might have been merely a tall-tale spun by a clever snake oil salesman, posing as a nice guy who had many incredible experiences. But the more I read, the more I was convinced of his absolute sincerity because of how human and tangible a character he really is. I thought I was listening to a storyteller speak rather than reading...
...secessionist provinces and one irate band of paramilitary horsemen." Blaming the U.S. and the West as being unprepared to deal with the effects of the Cold War, Fritz writes that "The West got the world it had demanded, and now it was scrambling to shield itself from it." The Western demand for open markets in the world obviously did not include open movement of populations...
...been a tough sell. Three weeks of bombing have not convinced Milosevic that he has more to lose by toughing out NATO's air campaign than by accepting its terms. And with the Western alliance coming under increasing pressure to find a political solution, NATO is refining its negotiating terms...
...school and the video arcade. When the school teacher did not know any better than to call Milton's masterpiece "Pair of Dice Lost," the program functioned as an ideological clarion call to future college students like you who would go on to demand the displacement of an ossified Western canon with more relevant investigations of low culture. Several years ago a student who will remain nameless--her name was Jen--handed in a pictoral interpretation of the essay question in place of a ten-page paper. I instantly knew that she had gleaned her air of entitlement and complete...
...greatest irony of this situation, of course, is that for a decade Milosevic was supposed to be the antidote for war in the Balkans. In deal after deal, Western diplomats worked with him whenever his false promises offered a cheap, if distasteful way out of crisis after crisis. Now we are paying the price for thinking he was ever a man the West could do business with...