Word: atomica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomica. Currently, U.S. policy suffers from what one State Department man calls "a heavy military bias." Too many U.S. officials have fallen into the habit of measuring progress (or security) exclusively by the number of nuclear explosions, the number of divisions mobilized. The result is that the U.S. is stuck with a warlike vocabulary (e.g., "massive retaliation"), while the Communists, who continue to aggress, have stolen the words of peace (e.g., "coexistence...
President Eisenhower is convinced that "there is no longer any alternative to peace." The British believe that the world is entering a period of pax atomica, based on a recognition by both sides of a nuclear standoff. The new phrase spreading in both London and Washington is "competitive coexistence...
...faced with a mounting economic crisis. As a result of drought and government mismanagement, prices are shooting up at the rate of 3% a month. Peron also seems to be heading for trouble with the church. Last month, when the church protested that a new Argentine movie called Barbara Atomica was immoral (TIME, June 2), the government not only refused to ban the film but sent police to make sure that it was shown. Last week, in a new move almost certain to provoke a showdown, some of the new Peronista Women's Party congressional deputies announced a plan...
...meeting was brought to an impressive finale with a piano performance by Muriel, Lady Anderson of her new Atomica symphony, a musical interpretation of "how man's whole mind changed from the moment the atom bomb dropped." "Of course," said Lady Anderson to her enthusiastic audience, "I was inspired. Man can do anything he wants if he will only tune in to the vibrations around...
Sometime next spring Lady Anderson hopes to have Atomica played by a professional orchestra. Meanwhile, Founder Howorth is dreaming of the day when she can stage Isotopia at the Albert Hall. "We would have room there," she explained with a hectic smile, "for all the 92 transmutations of the atom. Then we could have the explosion...