Word: colossial
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...France, Premier Faure told the people that at Geneva there were not "four big ones, but two colossi," and some French politicians became newly apprehensive that the two colossi might settle Europe's fate through "le dialogue russo-ameéricain" without reference to France. There was also the possibility that the fate of Germany might be decided bilaterally between Adenauer and the Russians. Result: a curious revival of French enthusiasm for "la relance européenne," or the relaunching of the idea of Europe. In Faure's Cabinet last week, Robert Schuman, father of Europe...
Beyound a Threat-Hope. President Eisenhower did not want to make a threat-even in retaliation-the major theme of his speech. He said that to dwell upon the possibility of atomic war would "be to confirm the hopeless finality of the belief that two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world...
Since there is no exit from the coming clash of the two "colossi," mankind is doomed to a long night of barbarism-i.e., a Barbary shore...
...ages lost in the drifts of time, some of the most mysterious eyes on earth have stared cryptically toward tiny Bikini Atoll. On Easter Island, outrigger of the fleets of archipelagoes that ride the Pacific Ocean, a long file of stone colossi rear cold, immortal faces. No one knows what men carved these gigantic symbols, what hands, what primitive technology raised them, with what devotion or what fears. Whether they are gods or images of human greatness, they are menacing; they are monuments to the fact that man's history can perish utterly from the earth...
...unwordly worship of theory, the aloof reserve, the detached and implacable prudence, which the uninitiated customarily attribute to the colossi of the chess world, apparently disintegrate once the wizards of the checkered board sniff a good Queen's Gambit or sense a toothsome French Defense in the offing...