Word: western
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan has one of the world's most admired architectural traditions, one that has influenced Western artists and architects from the mid-19th century to the present. But at home Japanese architects have long found themselves faced with a dilemma: how to be modern and still remain Japanese. When the modern movement was brought back from Europe by early Japanese students of Germany's Bauhaus and France's Le Corbusier (see below), the results were often merely derivative cubist modern...
...prodigious feat of analysis, narrative and condensation, Bertrand Russell has compressed the history of Western philosophy into 320 pages. (In a 1946 volume, he took nearly three times as much space.) As ground bait in the chilling stream of philosophic speculation, the publishers have sprinkled 500 illustrations, half of them in color, through this volume. From Thales (circa 624-546 B.C.), about whom little is known, to Whitehead and Wittgenstein, both of whom the author knew well, Russell tells something of the life as well as the ideas of the hundred-odd philosophers who have helped to make the mind...
They Came to Cordura. Gary Cooper on another western road, but this time the villain is cowardice, and the showdown involves not the fall of a body but the rise of a soul...
...highly publicized Brooklyn dress manufacturer who didn't know the name of the premier of Ceylon and the German-speaking Ambassador to France are all too typical of American amateur diplomats. Such men are needed, in the cases of Paris, London and other Western European capitals, because a career man cannot afford the huge expenditures of an embassy social season; they are used in other cases because the United States has not awakened to the importance in international relations of normal diplomatic channels and a competent man on the spot...
...United States should attempt to match all Russian programs in these countries, he affirmed that foreign aid is necessary. He expressed doubt that foreign aid will be decisive in shaping the loyalties of these new and underdeveloped countries. "I ame not at all convinced that the pedantic rules of Western policy, combined with a certain lack of energy, might not be less appealing than Moscow and Peiping," he added...