Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essentially totalitarian philosophy that the end justifies the means and that, even in peacetime, due process of law can be set aside to protect the state. Almost unanimously, German editors felt that whatever good intentions lay behind the government's deeds, it all had the sound of an echo from Germany's tragic past. There was no denying that a security breach had been committed, and there were even charges that Der Spiegel had bribed an army officer to divulge military secrets. But the government had taken its actions in a needlessly heavy-handed manner. The nation...
...boost her first year from a most unlikely source. "Anyone who wants to spend $100 or $150 for a picture by one of the younger American abstractionists may eventually own a masterpiece," cooed Elsa Maxwell in one of her columns. "Some dissenters scream, 'Hang the abstractionists!' I echo: 'Certainly, but why not hang them on your walls?' " One dealer who enthusiastically agreed was Charles Egan, who gave De Kooning and Franz Kline their first oneman shows...
Trito Travelogue. To U.S. critics, Winter, an allegory of the affluent society, seemed only a thin, high-pitched echo of the early and genuine social protest that filled The Grapes of Wrath. The judges' decision was also reportedly influenced by Steinbeck's latest, bestselling Travels with Charley, which manages to recapture the banality, mawkish sentiment and pseudo philosophy that have marked Steinbeck at his worst...
...used $280,000 of it to buy St. Donat's Castle, a magnificent edifice begun in the 12th century by a Norman nobleman and modernized by William Randolph Hearst when Hearst purchased it in the '20s. Now the ancient corridors and narrow stone spiral stair wells echo to the footfalls of 55 boys from twelve nations...
...sing-along was started by TIME Correspondent Robert B. Piser, who, attempting to determine the century in which that version of the hymn was composed, sang it to several sources on the phone-and they went on from there singing it to others. Piser finally got the correct echo: 9th century...