Word: spellbound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made between East and West, Orient and Occident. Almost entirely "Western" in origin, this imaginative geography that splits the world into two unequal, fundamentally opposite spheres has brought forth more myths, more detailed ignorance and more ambitions than any other perception of difference. For centuries Europeans and Americans have spellbound themselves with Oriental mysticism, Oriental passivity, Oriental mentalities. Translated into policy, displayed as knowledge, presented as entertainment in travelers' reports, novels, paintings, music or films, this "Orientalism" has existed virtually unchanged as a kind of daydream that could often justify Western colonial adventures or military conquest. On the "Marvels...
Instead, I'll enthrall all you spellbound readers with a few of the formative moments in my hockey background...
...evening nightlight was clearly the tribute the Hawaiian club paid to its native state. From the club's opening "ALOHA" to the warrior dance to the final hula, the audience watched spellbound. After it ended, everyone joined in a heart-warming, if stomach-turning, rendition of the Samoan National Anthem...
...fiery chairwoman of the 7 million-member Kabataang Barangay (Youth Council) held her audience spellbound as she denounced the U.S. "Step up the drumbeat!" she exhorted her youthful followers at the council's convention in Laguna province this month. Calling for total war against foreign intervention, she demanded the dismantling of the huge U.S. military bases in the Philippines...
Party--Sheraton Commander featuring Spellbound, 9-1; admission...