Word: gateways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other vital ingredients-pro-Western Prince Boun Oum and right-wing General Phoumi Nosavan-were missing. Continuing their junketing round of Southeast Asian nations in search of money and sympathy, the two arrived at Manila, where they got plenty of sympathy. Neutralism, declared President Diosdado Macapagal, "is the gateway to Communism." He found it incomprehensible, he said, that the U.S. in Laos was giving support to neutralists like Souvanna Phouma and withholding aid from staunch anti-Communists like his guests...
...relish, few Westerners had ever heard of Hiroshima before 1945, whereas their city has been known to missionaries, traders and sailors since 1549, when Jesuit Missionary St. Francis Xavier landed near by for a two-year stay in Japan. For 2½ centuries, Nagasaki was Japan's only gateway to the Western world. Long before 1853, when U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay and ended Japan's era of seclusion, European traders had introduced Nagasaki's citizens to Western literature, science and business methods...
...right angle poised in the sky, while extending the mountainous skyline, also does a good deal more. It could symbolize a sail, a rainbow, or even the basic order lying beneath nature's turbulent surface. It is the first thing that catches the eye and is thus the gateway to the entire composition...
...bronze vessels were deposited in the tombs of great men to serve the needs of the body that remained bound to the earth; there was no higher function for the artist than to turn out these ritual vessels. The intricate decoration not only warded off evil but provided a gateway for the artist's imagination. Fantastic animals, ogres' heads, symbols of the yang and yin, and finally the human figure, all made their appearance, and the bronzes themselves were never surpassed in the workmanship of later artisans...
Last week, with nearly every loophole closed, East German Boss Walter Ulbricht led a gaggle of East German commissars and Soviet officers to the Bran denburg Gate. Atop the gate, once the principal gateway between East and West Berlin and now the capstone of Ulbricht's wall, a new flagpole had been hastily erected. As the East German hammer and compass flag was run up to celebrate his macabre triumph, Ulbricht watched happily...