Tim Hu:

>The subject is interesting.  Quite to the contrary, as Hector Aguilar
>mentioned, the Western Civ.  is not falling but rather rising up
>rapidly in places as far as the Orient (albeit a different kind of
>course).

Not long before that, I'd read the New York Times piece on Golijov to
which Gene Halaburt drew our attention.  It said, in part:

   "The 20th century's revolutions were led from Europe and then
   the United States; now may come the turn of China, Australia
   and Latin America."

I was struck by the coincidence.

Richard Pennycuick
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