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 [log in to unmask]