Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within its first decade, the movie industry had recapitulated America's century-long trek westward. In 1900, before the picturemakers arrived, Los Angeles was a sleepy city of 102,000 -- the population of Memphis or Omaha. But the immigrants could get drunk on the possibilities of all that air, desert, sea; ambition had elbow room there. And soon after settling in the Los Angeles suburb of Hollywood, the industry discovered the last element it needed to achieve dominance among the popular arts: movie stars. Two of them, by turning stereotypes of Everyman and Pretty Girl into archetypes, would become...
...else to cheer about. Its army, the world's fourth largest (1.2 million men), remains at war and on alert: 160,000 of its troops are trying to subdue resistance fighters in neighboring Kampuchea, while another 650,000 men keep an uneasy peace along the Chinese border. The relaxed, Westward-looking laissez-faire of the South has yet to be completely assimilated within the socialist puritanism of the North. And despite $2 billion in aid from the Soviet Union each year, Viet Nam remains desperately poor...
John Hersey, 70, is back home on Martha's Vineyard after wintering in Key West. But his attention is already turning westward, across Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay, over the American landmass, toward the Pacific and beyond. The New Yorker once again has asked him to visit and write about Hiroshima, 40 years after the city was destroyed by a single bomb and 39 years after Hersey marked the first anniversary of atomic warfare with the most celebrated piece of journalism to come out of World War II. Hiroshima filled the magazine's entire August 31, 1946, issue. Published...
...never rests for long, nor does it permit anything else to rest," wrote John Madson in his book Where the Sky Began, an eloquent evocation of the changing heartland and its people. "Those first Europeans had no basis for even imagining wild fields through which a horseman might ride westward for a month or more." The land enlarged their spirits and made them prosper...
...There's been a massive reaction by people in the pews against the very well-meaning New York boards that they never see," says Martin Marty, religion historian at the University of Chicago. A westward shift, he thinks, would be aimed at putting "the leadership in close touch with the way people are actually thinking." The Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Episcopal bishop of New York, counters that it is vital to be where "urban issues, poverty issues and the intensity of the social problems are right there under your nose...