Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...front of College House- the building which rambles along the western side of Harvard Square- was remodeled to meet the demands of an expanding Harvard Trust and a growing Harvard Coop. Behind the remodeled facade whose ominous aluminum gratings shielded the upstairs office windows, these two establishments grew progressively closer. The redesigned structure- as well as its marquee- was shared by both Coop and bank...
Levi-Strauss makes a connection between the increasingly representational tendencies in Western art (culminating with the Impressionists' pseudoscience of "capturing" light) and the elite system of distribution, the "individualization" of culture consumption. (The "art lover" syndrome is unique to modern societies.) Primitive art, by contrast, is for everybody and performs a social function, possesses a sign-value. Language is by nature a group phenomenon, an device versa. It follows that, in the chance of historical signification's surrounding the events at Adalen in 1931, without a clear definition of group relations, social depth-perception, class-consciousness, etc., you are going...
Villanova, the IC4A champion, was only two points behind Oregon, while Texas at EI Paso, Indiana, and Western Michigan completed the top five. Penn was 22nd, and Cornell was 25th...
...When I was writing my books," Andrei Amalric said last February, "I realized I was risking prison." Risk became reality last week. In Sverdlovsk, 850 miles from Amalric's home in Moscow and well out of bounds to nosy Western correspondents, the Russian social critic, 32, was sentenced to three years at hard labor for having "distributed fabrications defaming the Soviet state." Among his "fabrications" were two books published only in the West: Involuntary Journey to Siberia, an account of the 18 months he served in exile, and Will The Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, a grim, apocalyptic view...
...that Amalric, frail and hollow-cheeked, had pleaded not guilty and declared the trial illegal in a one-hour statement to the court. Amalric's friends fear he may not survive his harsh sentence, for he suffers from heart disease. His wife Giselle, in a statement given to Western correspondents, said: "I know that my husband is strong in spirit and that neither the indictment nor the sentence can break him spiritually. But I also know how weak his health is. I fear...