Word: globalitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eager to confer the global franchise upon benighted nationalists in Berlin, leather-jacketed World Citizen Garry Davis fluttered from Canada to Le Havre, drifted into West Germany, got netted at Oebisfelde by East German border guards after he flashed his credentials (his do-it-yourself World Passport 000.001). Bounced back to West German cops, Davis responded with lectures on world citizenship when asked for proper papers, pettishly tore up his passport and mewled, "I don't want to go back to those evil men" when ear-bent cops threatened to toss him back to the border guards Numbed...
TIDES OF CRISIS, by Adolf A. Berle Jr. (328 pp.; Reynal; $4), finds the mellowing (62) ex-brain truster of F.D.R. days conducting a mildly condescending seminar on the key events of the last quarter-century for the benefit of that global slowpoke, the U.S. public. Author Berle is most provocative when he looks at the mid-century world as a stage and finds it peopled with ghosts...
...seeking to measure the meanings of the cold war, the U.S. and its allies have lined up many opposing concepts-freedom v. slavery, opportunity v. conformity, godliness v. ungodliness, and so on-to define and dramatize what the struggle is all about. Last week the global sweep of the news added up to another concept: namely, law and justice v. authoritarian rule, two 180° opposites ranged against each other across organized land masses of freedom and serfdom. In the reports out of Budapest, Panmunjom, Washington, the operative word was justice; the question welling up, the debate accumulating, the pressure...
...with more manpower, is widely accepted by editors as more accurate than the U.P. Day by day the A.P. also files more interpretive background stories on world affairs than the U.P., and in some capitals it notoriously outperforms U.P. Today none of the wire services boasts men with the global flair of the U.P.'s late WTebb Miller or the personal following of its late Raymond Clapper, but the U.P. has a sizable share of the standout American correspondents abroad and in Washington...
...commonplace, the influence seemed unimportant, usually killed only the aged and already infirm (it was jocularly dubbed the "new acquaintance," "gentle correction" or even "jolly rant"). But as the ancient scourges were being brought under control, influenza occasionally became more lethal. Finally, in 1918-19, it erupted in a global pandemic, one of the worst disease disasters in history, which claimed at least 15 million dead-many of them, unaccountably, young adults in their prime. Still the cause of influenza was unknown...