Word: foreshadowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeking a Collapse. Obviously, no TV viewer expected The German Confederation to foreshadow actual events in Germany during the next nine years. But Rudiger Altmann's fantasy-and the excitement it caused-were symptomatic of the buoyant mood on both sides of the Wall, and a new attitude toward reunification. Thanks to the relaxation of cold-war tensions, Germans today are nursing a growing though still amorphous hope that a start toward a peaceful solution to the problem of a divided Germany may now be found. Few have the illusion that the frozen ice of Central Europe...
...differences in appearance of the various forms foreshadow the deeper contrasts of their content. For instance, the Wilson, a one-year fellowship for students who are seriously considering a career in college teaching, encourages future teachers in psychological as well as financial ways: there is a personal, strolling-together through-the-groves-of-academe quality to all of the Wilson forms. All correspondence comes from, and is to be addressed to, the Chairman of your Regional Committee--not to an anonymous committee...
Characters who later appear in La Strada or 8 1/2 can be found, if you care to look for them. For example, a flabby stripper in the revue later turns up as the famous Saraghina in 8 1/2. Haggard actors tramping along dusty country roads surely foreshadow La Strada. By contrast, the extended aerial shots of Rome lack only the helicopter and Christ of La Dolce Vita...
...Brink. While the fourth theory seemed the most plausible, the fact was that even the U.S. had no clear idea of what the attacks might foreshadow. Moscow, of course, weighed in with a charge that the U.S. retaliation was an "open and hostile action," but its reaction was remarkably restrained. The Kremlin was clearly anxious to avoid getting involved too closely in Communist China's designs. Hanoi reacted to the U.S. action with contrived indignation. Peking waited nearly 24 hours, then declared that the U.S. "has gone over the brink of war" and warned that "the debt of blood...
Manufacturers' new orders, which foreshadow how busy the nation's factories will be, rose .5% from April to May, but the rise was all in the soft-goods industries; orders for hard goods fell for the fourth straight month...