Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist aggression wherever it breaks out. "These offshore islands do not constitute the ideal defensive position," the Secretary admitted dryly, but neither does West Berlin. "Berlin is militarily indefensible. It is a small island of freedom totally surrounded by Soviet power. But we do not abandon it on that account. Nevertheless, the U.S. and its allies have risked war and stand committed today to risk war rather than surrender Berlin...
...lively characterization and the lucidity of Phillips' translation will bring the New Testament alive for countless 20th century readers to whom the Bible is nothing but a tedious arrangement of dead language. Phillips comes out way ahead of King James's team of translators in the account of Paul's defense against King Agrippa in Acts: 26 (see below...
Unless Dean Elder revises his program to take these contingencies into account, his plan could be more of a danger to Ph.D. standards than a help...
...writers of science fiction, the future is now much with many moderns. So much so that it takes half of Leningrad Popular Science Films Studio's production to get us out of the past. Billed as "Russian science fiction," the Brattle film is only partly that. After an account of the early struggles of the late Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a breathless rundown of recent rocket developments culminates at the magic date of October 4, 1957. As past becomes future, satellites flourish, Soviet citizens view the "other" side of the moon on TV, the planets unfold their secrets...
...like on the twin foundations of hindsight and inevitability, Road to the Stars is pretty dull entertainment. The future is offered as a fantastic but closed book. The invasion of the cosmos isn't as exciting as Walt Disney or George Pal might make it. More interesting is the account of the early struggles of the late Soviet creator (in 1903) of the multiple-stage rocket, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoolteacher "as modest as he was great." Half-deaf himself, Tsiolkovsky was able to gain no other ears than those of his young students until the October Revolution...