Word: maximalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love his books. As a child I couldn't understand, since his name was the same, why we weren't related. He was a maximalist, and that's what I admire. Somebody once told him to take out all that was not necessary. And he said, "No. I'm a putter-inner." And that's what I am, a putter-inner...
...retrospective affirms the panache and mental horsepower that make Frank Stella the grand maximalist of abstract painting...
When Secretary of State George Schultz and his Soviet counterpart. Andrei Gmomyko, emerge from their closed session this afternoon, it is hard to see that anything meaningful will have transpired, at least according to the maximalist standards held by the hordes of Western press who have flocked to Geneva. The best that can be hoped for will be an agreement for the two, or some of their underlings, to meet again to continue discussion on how to make reductions in the huge nuclear stockpiles held by the two countries. Certainly, however, such future talks will be doomed to failure...
...SEARCH for moderate solutions to Central America's multiple woes is tricky business, none the easier when the chief protaganists continue to rely on extremist tactics to force maximalist ends. The rhetorical heat rising out of both the United States and Nicaragua of late has only served to obscure the peace-destroying policies of the two adversaries: on the part of the Reagan Administration, bristling militarism, and from the Sandinista regime, increasing political repression. Surprisingly enough, it is in El Salvador, that supposed hotbed of extremism, where the sides are suddenly talking conciliation and understanding. And while the sudden rush...
...dustbin" of history, and with his blessing, his minious proceeded to scuttle just about any chance for an accomodation with the evil empire. Granted their chances were not propitious, given the beligerent Russian frame of mind and intransigence on Euromissiles, but they were non-existent under the maximalist approach to arms control favored by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and his Svengali, Ricahrd Perle, who have had the President's ear on these matters...