Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhetoric. In both Washington and Seoul, officials said they were mystified over the reasons for the North Korean attack. It is conceivable that it was simply a local controversy: the hostility along the DMZ is strong enough for the pruning of a tree to become a casus belli (see box). Beyond that, the Korean Communists have been unusually bitter lately in their rhetorical condemnations of the U.S. presence in South Korea. Last week, for example, the North Korean embassy in Peking twice issued warnings that "a critical situation" was developing in Korea and that war could break...
...cities and campuses are cool. The pollsters report that public confidence is on the rise and that Americans are becoming more conservative?suspicious of Big Government and the big-spending programs fashioned by Democrats. All in all, a nice backdrop for heady Republican success at the ballot box...
...Michigan Congressman Donald Riegle. He felt that his faction of the party no longer had any influence. "We were like the tail of the dog; we couldn't wag the dog." A Republican pondering whether to follow Riegle's example is Maryland's Charles Mathias (see box). Another moderate, Manhattan Lawyer Rita Hauser, former U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, complains: "We are viewed by the right wing as if we were lepers. I have nothing against conservatives, but they are not willing to make the happy pragmatic blend, and that is why they lose...
...hangs like an angel in a mandorla of color. No athlete himself, Delaunay was fascinated by organized spectator sport-itself a "modern" phenomenon. Its sense of disciplined energy appealed to him, and in the various versions of The Cardiff Team, he set forth a compendium of favorite images: the box-kite biplane in the sky, the Tower, a Ferris wheel, a bright yellow bill board for an aircraft-manufacturing firm named Astra and the joyously leaping rugby players...
...Verisimilitude," when she allows a child to place a box on his head and pretends it is a hat, but does not encourage him to do the same thing with, say, a ball...