Word: grapeshot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrated siege of Athens' Polytechnic University had provoked a violent clash with the army that helped topple the country's military junta. Now the marchers, 15,000 strong from all political factions, swept through the streets of Athens with a more peaceful aim: to protest a grapeshot series of educational reforms known as Law 815. Trying to play it safe, the conservative government of Premier Constantine Caramanlis had closed the country's seven universities (total enrollment: 100,000). But as it turned out, the students intensified their challenge by staging a takeover of the campuses...
Washington's most serious problem is with its strongest ally, West Germany. Schmidt regards Carter as some kind of misguided zealot. The Chancellor has charged that the President was much too categorical in his SALT proposals, leaving Brezhnev little room for negotiation. Schmidt further feels that Washington's grapeshot human rights drive may be less effective in helping dissenters in Communist countries than would quiet diplomatic pressure in the Kissinger fashion. What deeply concerns him among other things is that deterioration in East-West relations could jeopardize the continuing emigration of ethnic Germans from Poland and the U.S.S.R...
...future of détente were America's European allies, and even some U.S. Soviet specialists. West Germany's Schmidt is bringing Carter a message of concern informally agreed to by the leaders of all nine Common Market countries; they are urging Carter to moderate his grapeshot approach to human rights...
...have if you're having only one. The authors have rifled the diaries, journals, letters and reports of hundreds of participants and woven them into a totally absorbing, seamless war narrative that a novelist might envy. The voices range from Joseph Plumb Martin, an irrepressible private ("The grapeshot and langrage flew merrily") to General Washington, who was often prey to justifiable private gloom. (All might be well, he reflected in 1776, if his soldiers "would behave with tolerable resolution. But experience, to my extreme affliction, has convinced me that this is rather to be wished than expected...
About Heroes. One fiction that the show destroys is the lingering idea that revolutions in politics produce revolutionary art styles. The notion that the events of 1789 filled the Salon with blood, grapeshot and equality is a myth. As the catalogue reminds us, "It is generally agreed that the Revolution did not seriously affect the development of French painting." Thus when it came, the successful portraitists-most of whom, like the gifted Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, were women-simply turned from painting the court to recording the features of eminences like Robespierre and Talleyrand...