Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radio Foochow charged that opponents of the Cultural Revolution in that coastal city were also launching countermarches and bankrolling batches of workers on trips to Peking, ostensibly to "report conditions" but actually "to sabotage production and communication." As a result, complained the Red Guards, "the water is stirred and has...
The Maoist postermakers have developed a shorthand of invective in the war of words. One favorite reference is to a "dog in the water," meaning an enemy who has been brought down but should be finished off to avoid all risks of a future comeback. "Black gangsters" are anti-Mao...
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant caused a fresh flurry of speculation when the New York Times reported that he had come up with "hard facts of a positive response from North Viet Nam" should the U.S. end the bombing. If so, that was news to the White House. "I...
...usual subject of Indian paintings and sculpture -- maintain an expression of cosmic serenity even when engaged in brutal battle or erotic activity. Many Westerners find the lush anatomy and serpentine lines oversensuous and corrupt, and on the whole the Indian aesthetic does not correspond to anything which is immediately meaningful to Western eves. The meaning and beauty of Indian art eludes anyone untutored in the thought from which the artists proceeded...
Signs of Reverence. A fixture on Fleet Street since the end of World War II, Muggeridge at 63 actually seems to be enjoying himself. Perhaps one reason for his popularity is that he seems so much at home in "little England." Delighted that Britain is at last relieved of the...