Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...send a new breed of technological "Yankee traders" to exploit rich Asian markets. Most notably, like Democratic Presidential Aspirant Jerry Brown, Connally advocated a North American common market. "This economic union would be a formidable trading bloc," he said. Here too there are problems. Mexico has already denounced the idea as little more than latter-day Yankee imperialism designed to capture Mexican oil. It is also, according to one prominent businessman, ''hideously complex...
...receive the massive quantities of grain that it needs. The primary reason the three Senators visited Cambodia, in fact, was to try to persuade the Phnom-Penh regime to do just that. But at week's end the ruling People's Revolutionary Council rejected the idea, thereby ensuring that the flow of emergency supplies would remain inadequate...
What even the most militant of the Palestinians want is to have open borders, to go freely to and from Israel. We would never support the idea of a corridor between the West Bank and Gaza. Why should there be one, when the people of Gaza and the West Bank can pass freely through Israel? The same is true of Jerusalem. Everyone now realizes that the partition of Jerusalem is not a solution. We have to live there together: a Jewish quarter here, an Arab quarter there; a Jewish area like Beersheba, an Arab area like Gaza. They must...
Moscow's drive has already assumed the proportions of its campaign in 1977 and early 1978 against the proposed deployment of the neutron warhead. Under withering pressure from leftists and peace activists, Western Europeans resisted the idea, and President Carter eventually decided to abandon it. The stakes are higher in the current proposal: to modernize NATO's theater nuclear forces with the deployment of 572 mobile, intermediate-range cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western European countries, as a counterforce to the more than 100 advanced multiwarhead SS-20 missiles already stationed in the western Soviet Union...
...Webern, one of the great innovators of the 20th century, this was a spiritual matter. In every vista he saw a creative idea logically developed. The merest wild flower reminded him of Goethe's ''primeval plant,'' symbol of the unity of all organic life. Most important, his moun tain treks re-enacted his artistic aspirations. More than any composer before or since, Webern worked on the timberline between sound and silence. His austere, rigorously condensed pieces seem to hover in a clear, rarefied ether of their own, like clusters of ice crystals on the point...