Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the end of World War I, the principal aim of U.S. foreign policy, says Ways, has been to ensure the nation's survival. This limiting policy kept Franklin Roosevelt from moving ships and planes on Pearl Harbor eve because he thought the people would not understand warlike actions until "the aggressor" had struck the first blow. It led the U.S. to fight World War II under "the shamefully aimless policy banner of unconditional surrender,'' without any postwar aims. Today, as in Hitler's day. the U.S. is up against an enemy with a purpose, plan...
POLITICAL: Survival, as an end, confuses political purpose. For example, U.S. leaders had to try to explain the Korean war as a challenge to U.S. survival, with the result, says Ways, that "the public had no image of what the U.S. was trying to win," was thoroughly confused about objectives once the Reds were driven back across the 38th parallel. The Russians start with objectives that link both military and political planning and keep them closely coordinated. "We have whole categoric? of political objectives which our disordered ethics forbids us to defend by force...
Opening at Manhattan's Copacabana, Joe E. Lewis entertained an audience that included his usual hecklers, one of whom was soon on the short end of a new Lewis squelch: "Sir, you're a disgrace to your sex, whichever that...
...theme would have appealed to any opera composer from Donizetti to Kurt Weill: money and love. But particularly the former, since as Somerset Maugham put it, "In the end. all passions turn to money...
...days, the sacred symbols and rites of the Torah, the Talmud, and the lines of division in modern Judaism. Again and again Wouk draws on his personal experience. After describing the negative injunctions of Sabbath observance, which cuts off the outer world from Friday's sundown to "the end of twilight on Saturday," he demonstrates its positive side in terms of a Sabbath during the crisis-fraught readying of a Broadway play. "Leaving the gloomy theatre, the littered coffee cups, the shouting stagehands, the bedevilled director, I have come home. It has been a startling change, very like...