Word: apocalypticism
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For many, the weekend news of the imposition of martial law in Poland suggested an increased possibility of bloody, perhaps apocalyptic strife. For the men at 747 Cambridge St.--the home of the Polish American Citizens Association--the word from Warsaw, though painful, was not shocking.
In simplest definition, exaggeration is a form of lying. Is it therefore bad, an instrument of untruth? It depends. Sometimes the artful exaggeration is a way of evoking, of discovering, an essential truth lying below the prosaic surface of things. The very idea of exaggeration presupposes some discoverable, objective reality...
Cohen supplies a few "Soviet-style" ploys of his own: hanging up the phone in midsentence, for example, giving the impression you were cut off and thus gaming a little additional time to think things over. Then there is the "nibble": leading your opponent deep into negotiations, so that he...
In his opening remarks. Mack linked the rise of apocalyptic religions, the transience of modern society, as well as Americans' and Soviets' widespread drug and alcohol abuse to failure to cope with the fear of living the nuclear age.
It is always unwise for a President to get hypnotized by the world's complaints about the way he conducts business. Nudging a great nation into a new course pinches a lot of people. Likewise, the Chief Executive who reads the domestic polls every night for political guidance is...