Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The most formidable sword, of course, remains national disunity. Like all Presidents-elect, Nixon has been enjoying the traditional honeymoon with the nation in his first weeks after election. He has used the quiet time that often follows the end of a long campaign to forge an Administration privately and...
These and a thousand other truisms or semi-truisms are readily recalled in times of financial trouble to bolster this or that point. But money is also something very simple beyond all those definitions. It is one reliable means of keeping score on the accomplishments of a person, a company...
Not only does the current international monetary crisis reinforce cliches about national character; it also reveals that Germany is even stronger and France is weaker than many observers had previously believed. The French government is paying the price for giving in last spring to striking workers' demands for big...
Money tells much about a nation's character because it is so closely entwined with a nation's history, psychology and destiny. Ever since Stone Age men began bartering with furs, and the ancient Lydians introduced metal money, practically every dominant civilization has risen to power partly through...
When Kazantzakis created Zorba, he fashioned a character who defies death.