With this criterion included, a country such as China – which does not have a free press, democratic elections or other guarantees that western democracies treasure – can claim that it is as qualified to judge the United States on human rights as vice versa.
Gold is being pitched as a tale of greed and folie de grandeur in the vein of John Huston's 1948 western The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which starred Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Huston's father, Walter, as penniless prospectors who become corrupted after discovering vast riches in 1920s Mexico.
Using literary analysis and psychological case histories, "The Birth of Pleasure" asks why Western civilization treasures the idea of tragic passion -- the tale of Hester Prynne and her lover, the weak-willed minister Arthur Dimmesdale, being a case in point.
He received the Australian government centenary medal in 2001, was proclaimed a Western Australian Living Treasure in 2004, and, in 2011, was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.
Mr. Obana's collection was a hoot, both a sendup of vintage westerns and a treasure trove of good clothes, including narrowly tailored khakis, light-wash denim and a camp shirt of patchwork plaids.
Crucial to his development, he said, was the notion that he was a "bastard of the West," without any natural claim to "Shakespeare, Bach, Rembrandt, to the stones of Paris, to the cathedral at Chartres": to all the things that, as a budding artist and a Western citizen, he treasured most.
In Moscow the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum houses treasures of western European art, while the Tretyakov Gallery has a strong collection of Russian art.
Amory Blaine had been to prep school, and his mother, though not of the privileged class, had raised him to appreciate the treasures of Western culture.
ISTANBUL — After years of pleading in vain for the return of Anatolia's cultural treasures from Western museums, Turkey has started playing hardball.
Compositions centering on the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris around 1200 make up one of the great treasures of Western music but are seldom heard.
