Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lights will be shooting for Cornell and Penn in the Sprints, May 11; M.I.T. in the Biglin Bowl here on the Charles, April 20; and Princeton in the Goldthwait Cup at Princeton, May 4. If all goes well, the oarsmen are thinking about Henley, the Western Sprints on the Coast, and perhaps even entering the IRA's in June...
Despite its repressive character, East Germany's Communist regime has had a constitution for years that embodied most of the liberal concepts of Western democracies. Drafted in 1949, when the Communists hoped to impose it on a reunified Germany, the constitution contained sections on human rights and religious freedom that were designed to allay the fears of nonCommunists. Not surprisingly, East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht never bothered to put those provisions into practice. Last week, in the first referendum ever held in East Germany, citizens dutifully approved a new constitution that is more in line with the totalitarian...
...really surprising that the churches should be sounding uncertain trumpets, or that Christians should be insecure as to the meaning and direction of their spiritual commitment. Undeniably, one of the most telling events of modern history has been a revolution in the relationship of religion to Western civilization. The churchgoer could once take comfort in the fact that he belonged to what was essentially a Christian society, in which the existence of an omnipotent God was the focus of ultimate meaning. No such security exists today, in a secular-minded culture that suggests the eclipse rather than the presence...
Like all the forms of nonverbal human expression, the arts are international, leaping the bounds of language and education as easily as they do those of class or color. All the great art styles of Western history have flourished in many countries. Inevitably, then, the historian who tries to prove that one nation's painting is innately superior to that of any other is treading on shaky ground. Such technicalities, however, have hardly hindered the zealous ministers of Charles de Gaulle...
...Like the western, the international spy story usually falls into one of two categories: the Spoof or the Morality Play. A Dandy in Aspic offers a little of one and a lot of the other. The anti-hero has his moments of fun during a few idyllic interludes in the percales with some warm-blooded British birds; the rest of the time he is trapped in a plot as inexorable as fate...