Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many businessmen consider the Administration's plan to collect taxes on profits earned overseas a severe blow to U.S. business abroad (see BUSINESS). Others are holding off business decisions until the future of trade regulations is clear, or until they see the fate of the Administration's depreciation allowance bill. Moreover, there is a suspicion that the Administration tends to penalize bigness. Said Albert L. Nickerson, chairman of Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. "It seems to me illogical to 'think big' in terms of such activities as economic competition from Russia, space exploration and the conquest...
...midst of a seven-day visit to the U.S., France's Andre Malraux stopped off in Manhattan last week and delivered a remarkable speech in which he eloquently expanded the crucial role of culture in the long fight for the freedom of man. Famed novelist (Man's Fate), art critic (The Voices of Silence) and now France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs, Malraux sharply challenged those artists and intellectuals who see in the advent of modern mass culture only an artistic blight...
...mass dream. The American Revolution, the French Revolution fostered great, stirring dreams-confined to history. To rediscover an imaginative form which includes the real and the unreal, emotions and the phantasmagoria, we must look back to our Middle Ages and their noble courts of love. But the fate of Christianity was not decided in the courts of love; it was determined by those who, looking quite objectively at the 10th century mercenaries they saw around them, resolved to bring knighthood into flower from them...
...cities in Japan. Hiroshima today is grimly obsessed by that long-ago mushroom cloud; Nagasaki lives resolutely in the present. Though in fact U.S. fire bombs took more lives more painfully in Tokyo than the combined death toll of both A-bombs, Hiroshima has made an industry of its fate-even to naming bars and restaurants after the Bomb. Comparing Hiroshima with other war-devastated cities, a U.S. casualty commission official noted: "This is the only city in the world that advertises its past misery...
...South Viet Nam is a deadly game of hide-and-seek-with the fate of Southeast Asia at stake. It is a game that the U.S. is grimly determined...