Word: maximalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major nations with the possible exception of Germany." Hostility to another nation is not the cause of a war, but rather a preliminary or by-product. "Governments seldom engage in the emotionalism they encourage in people." But Russia's hatred of Germany might prove an exception to this maxim...
...project, which will open a 27-ft. waterway through the Soo Locks and the Detroit, St. Clair and St. Marys rivers. The Seaway should benefit ultimately, too, from major new iron mines being developed in Labrador and from steadily mounting U.S. and Canadian exports. Says Chicago Regional Port Director Maxim Cohen: "We're just a waddling infant. It will probably be 1965 before we can take off our diapers and put on pants...
...smile in memory of what was once a maxim of our Government: that a man who knows how to run General Motors knows by definition how to run the Department of Defense. It is, however, not self-evident that a man who knows how to run a university is thereby qualified to run the foreign policy of the U.S., and that an intellectual who knows how to lecture and write books knows also how to make foreign policy...
...only for tourists. The most important cars are a forceful but overstated Facel-Vega in which Yves Montand takes Ingrid Bergman for drives, and a giddy Triumph roadster in which Anthony Perkins takes Ingrid for drives. The starring restaurant, to which Perkins takes Ingrid for meals, naturally is Maxim's. But the Deauville Casino does creditably in the supporting role of the place where Montand, consumed with jealousy, docks his doxies...
...Pastor Wyrick seems to share the old circus maxim that "the first thing to do is get 'em in the tent," he makes no apologies. He believes that only the people who are in the church can hear the sermon. "I feel that I'm doing God's work," he said last week, "but just because it's God's work I don't have to be on a mountaintop. You get the respect you deserve, and you don't get any more for sitting on a pedestal...