Word: modish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold war of ideas by default, some kind of national information program seems essential. While I applaud your undergraduate seal to lash out at evil, may I suggest that you might achieve more lasting good if you thought through your ideas a bit more. Cavilling criticism, uninformed although modish, is no substitute for hard and informed thinking in international affairs. The problems faced by USIA should, I feel, be your concern. They include building a large staff of officers trained in their own and their host country's culture, language, history, politics, and information media. Successful explanation of one culture...
...spirit, and buried in the ground work that failed his standards. Currently on display in a major retrospective at the Worcester Art Museum are 43 works that stayed above ground. They look contemporary as can be; and perhaps are not a bad bet to outlast today's more modish explorations of the same unreality...
...learned for the first time of her husband's disability by reading about it in a newspaper. Alarmed, she cabled the White House, was assured that there was no need for her to cut her trip short and come home. So Jackie stayed on vacation. Clad in a modish dark blue bathing suit and a bright blue cap, she swam and water-skied in the Aegean Sea, while units of the Royal Hellenic Navy kept unwelcome small craft at bay. As her vacation idyl ended, Jackie tooled through the countryside in a Mercedes with young Crown Prince Constantine...
...imagistic" approach to foreign affairs has inherent dangers. First, there is no necessary connection between a nation's policy and the stereotypes (a less modish synonym) that its citizens believe: assuming there is such a connection may lead one to either foolishly convert one's own policy into ineffective propaganda, or to try to assuage by dangerous connections a nation whose enemies attitude is actually maintained mere by the hostile propaganda of its own government than by the present injustice of ours. The assumption that Images are the spurs of policy may also create such misconceptions as the one (expressed...