Word: american
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intellectual life in American universities is faced by a "comparatively new and sinister enemy," according to Isaish Berlin, former Harvard lecturer on philosophy and first secretary at Britain's Washington embassy during World...
Starobin recently declared in a magazine article that "the reactionary, aggressive western Germany which has emerged and continues to be a menace and obstacle to a durable peace is a danger to the American people...
...contrast with his first lecture, in which he stressed the problem of an American depression as being more serious than the threat of a Russian attack, the Republican junior senator from Vermont emphasized the atom bomb as a preserver of peace, although he insisted that it should not be used "against conquered and enslaved populations...
...Bagdad" is an ordinary American western in disguise. The cavalry and the gangsters are there all right, only they are fitted out in flowing robes instead of gray serge, carry swords instead of pistols, smoke aguilas instead of cigarettes, and quote from the Koran whenever a cowboy might toss off a handy cliche...
Since the U.S. cannot dodge foreign responsibilities, Flanders added, its objective should be the "material prosperity of the American citizen and the preservation of his freedom." This isn't really selfish, he said, because the United States could do little for others in a depression...