Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the negotiations have temporarily lost their momentum, only Europe's darkest pessimists see the delays as anything more than temporary. Even France knows that if it keeps Britain out, it will be isolated from its partners in the Six-all of whom favor Britain's admission into the club. One top German official saw the stalemate as only a plot ploy in the Common Market melodrama. "The drama has started," he said. "I can see exits with doors slamming, tears, shouts of rage, devious subplots involving doublecrossing, and all the rest. But I am completely convinced that...
...hallmark of a Krips performance, as capacity crowds learned last week, is not only continuity but clarity, momentum, and an unremitting sense of tension that lends new life to the weariest war-horses in the world of music. Last week the programs included the Beethoven Seventh and Ninth symphonies, and the Third "Leonore" Overture-and for each work, Krips provided fine readings that did full justice to the music's grand design while ignoring none of its wondrous intricate detail...
Honestus: Several factors help perpetuate the system. One is the inherent momentum of Government aid programs: once they get started, it is hard to stop them. The recipients of aid come to depend upon it and to regard it as an inalienable right; the bureaucrats who administer the programs acquire an interest in preserving and justifying their functions and powers. Another factor is sentimentality-a feeling that farm life fosters the old-fashioned virtues. Many defenders of the price-support system argue it is needed to preserve the family farm, that disappearance of the family farm would weaken the moral...
Less than 24 hours earlier, the chartered jet was roaring down the Orly runway on takeoff. Unaccountably, it failed to lift. The pilot jammed down on the brakes, threw the powerful engines into reverse thrust. But the speed and momentum were too great. The plane rocketed ahead, plowed through a fence, grazed a house, and smashed to pieces in a fiery cloud, killing eight French crew members and 122 passengers. Miraculously, two stewardesses were thrown clear...
...great turning point came when ideology had to be replaced by performance. "Communism as an ideology," wrote Milovan Djilas five years ago in The New Class, "has mainly run its course. It does not have many new things to reveal to the world." Since Communism has lost momentum as a source of inspirational faith, the basic issue now is whether it can triumph as a practical economic blueprint...