Word: maximalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show started off as if someone had switched the scripts, or at least the sourcebooks. Kennedy quoted Abraham Lincoln, and Nixon invoked the "Let's take a look at the record" maxim of Al Smith. Nixon, who has not built a reputation for this sort of thing, then went on to tell 70 million Americans that his opponent Jack Kennedy was sincere. So, of course, Nixon added, was Dick Nixon, although Kennedy, to give him credit, never committed himself on this point...
...cold war." On Lodge's Boston home grounds, during what was billed as a nonpolitical "homecoming," a newsman asked him how he proposed to go about winning the cold war. One way that would help, said Lodge, would be to "follow the maxim of Stone wall Jackson-'Mystify, mislead, and surprise' "-and therefore he wasn't telling...
...legal maxim holds that "justice delayed is justice denied." If that is true, then plenty of Americans are denied justice. The Bill of Rights guarantees the defendant a "speedy" trial in criminal prosecutions, but in civil cases the wheels of justice may turn with agonizing slowness. Largely because of an upsurge in personal-injury suits during the postwar years, the average elapsed time between the filing of a federal civil suit and disposition of the case has increased from nine months in 1945 to 15 months now. In many state and local courts, justice is even slower. On the average...
...stepped forward was Kornei Chukovsky, 78, in his time the friend of Anton Chekov and Maxim Gorky. After recalling his long friendship with Pasternak, Chukovsky gingerly approached the crucial question: Pasternak's quarrel with the Communist Party. It resulted, said Chukovsky, from Pasternak's sharing Leo Tolstoy's pacifism and his refusal to "condone the resistance to evil by violence." In this Pasternak erred, stated Chukovsky. Then, having made the necessary obeisance to the Kremlin, he went on strongly to praise his old friend as a "splendid fighter," a perfect model of how an artist "should defend...
...this is, more or less, the story of a fellah who once lived in the Cairo slum of Attarine, is now at Chez Maxim's (where Bandleader Azzam himself hit the big time), and adores his girl "like tomato sauce" (salsa del pommodore in Azzam's pidgin Italian). But the words do not matter. They merely complement the international melody, which tinkles like goat bells near the White Nile and clicks like the heels of an Andalusian gypsy. Scored by Azzam for bongos, flute, tambourine, echo chamber and his own voice, Mustapha is adapted from an Egyptian student...