Word: echo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clout. The quintessential domestic President, Clinton sees everyone as he sees Americans: as bourgeois consumers whose behavior is driven by economic concerns. The idea that bad guys are interested only in raw power, and dissuaded only by countervailing power, seems lost on him. At this rate, Clinton may soon echo the words of a President whose penchant for muddleheaded multinationalism he much admires. "A nation that is boycotted is a nation in sight of surrender," said Woodrow Wilson in 1919. "Apply this peaceful, silent, deadly remedy, and there will be no need for force...
Today, in Tercentenary Theatre, one of Eliot's greatest admirers is likely to echo his role model's message about universities as enduring institutions. And yet, in his annual address to parents, graduates and alumni, President Neil L. Rudenstine is likely to sound a cautionary note-to stress that we are now embarking on The Period That Will Make or Break Harvard's Future...
...road movie, analogous to Jack Kerouac's writing (though without its hectoring blither) or the photographs of De Kooning's friend Robert Frank. See America now! And you do -- in abstraction; you feel its rush and tonic vitality in the toppling blue strokes of Ruth's Zowie, 1957, which echo Franz Kline's big-girder structures but move them into a pastoral context...
Clinton continued, "From those humble roots, as from so many humble beginnings in this country, grew the force of a driving dream." In his words there was an echo from his own background. Clinton and Nixon found friendship in the last year because of their shared interest in the future of Russia. But - there is also something about that high, lonely and rutted road of the presidency that evokes a mystic camaraderie among the small band of survivors. Clinton at the end quoted a hymn: "Grant that I may realize that the trifling of life creates differences, but that...
...Goodyear blimp, the Times Square news ticker and baseball scoreboards will all be flashing the same message next week: the label has arrived. Television ads will be urging people to "check it out." In a campaign designed to echo through every supermarket, the U.S. government is touting the new, improved nutrition labels that as of May 8 must appear on most food products...