Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Q. Many Americans remain confused by the word détente, or razryadka. How do you understand its meaning in concrete policy terms and as it applies to regional problems such as those in Africa and the Middle East?
As soon as it reconvenes, Congress will take up foreign affairs. Groups of Democrats and Republicans have returned from visits to the Soviet Union with misgivings. Their worries will lead most of them to support Carter's recognition of China, and they will probably confirm a U.S. Ambassador to...
Safire has learned to combine reporting with denouncing, and rarely writes thumb-suckers, which is what columnists call reflective pieces. A classic example appears in the Jan. 13 New Republic, written by Henry Fairlie. a transplanted Englishman who often combines good sense and fatuity. On the dubious premise that trends...
February 1972. A varsity athlete at Harvard must face the music. Not a professional, still the Harvard athlete is in the limelight and people and the media will be demanding. So this athlete learned when the hockey team for which he tended goal lost four straight games. I thought it...
For the second consecutive year, Husky Don Chambers won three events and gave a new meaning to the expression, "I'm feeling jumpy." The co-captain leaped 25 feet to grab first place in the long jump, soared 51 ft. 7 1/4 in. to top the triple jump, and bounded...