Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tract condemning his society to death in a revolt of the working class, never lost hope that free men could yet win the day. "With free institutions, unfettered industry, and emancipated thought, the people of the West will rise again to power and unity of purpose, while the Russian Colossus itself will be shattered by the progress of the masses and the explosive force of ideas...
...Theological says that "he bestrides the theological world like a colossus." Harvard's German-born Paul Tillich, the contemporary religious thinker whose stature most nearly rivals Barth's, has often disagreed with Barth -: "shouting at each other over a glass of wine" -but calls him, "the most monumental appearance in our period." Roman Catholic theologians, notably in Europe, have praised his thinking in terms they usually reserve for St. Thomas Aquinas. Once, upon hearing that Pius XII had paid tribute to his work, Barth smiled and said, "This proves the infallibility of the Pope." More seriously, he insists...
...Bostonian named Charlie, runs a popular song, didn't have enough money to get off the MTA, but a colossus named Harvard, $1 million in its hand, has faced an astonishing number of delays and frustrations in its attempts...
Laughter on the Left. Heading the U.S. delegation to Punta del Este, Secretary of State Dean Rusk tried to avoid appearing the Yankee colossus by recalling his own Georgia boyhood in "what people would now call underdeveloped circumstances . . . typhoid, pellagra, hookworm and malaria were a part of the environment in which Providence had placed us." But within a framework of democratic consent, said Rusk, an "alliance for progress" had been carried out within the U.S. And he eloquently pleaded: "Let us take action now to guard our own continent and our programs of democratic reforms against those who seek...
Nothing Parochial. In the U.S., trustbusters would bar the creation of such a colossus. But Chambers expects no trouble from the easy British antimonopoly laws. He argues that the takeover, which would give I.C.I, a full range of synthetic fibers to compete with its two top foreign rivals, Du Pont and France's Rhone-Poulenc/ Rhodiaceta, is primarily designed to sharpen Britain's competitive position in the Common Market. Says Chambers: "We are fighting on a world scale. We cannot be parochial about...