Word: monolithism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That the Communist bloc is no longer a monolith, but has wide variations "ranging from China, which poses immediate threats to the free world, to Poland and Yugoslavia, which pose none." Only if the U.S. recognizes the existence of these variations "can we hope to act effectively upon the bloc and to turn its internal differences to our own advantage...
Domino Theory. For so long, the cold war was waged on the basis of seemingly eternal verities. Communism was a monolith and therefore all the more powerful, dangerous-and, for some reason, efficient. The domino theory guided U.S. foreign policy. If Greece fell, so would Turkey, then most of the Middle East. If Laos went, so, like a row of dominoes, would South Viet Nam, Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia. Any Communist action had to be met instantly and decisively by Western reaction. All this led to a certain predictability of policy...
...single Fiberglas unit. Builders are not only experimenting with new materials, but with new shapes and concepts (see cover story in MODERN LIVING). One of the most unusual new office buildings is Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s Hartford, Conn, headquarters, which is a two-sided, ship-shaped monolith. To shut out the roar of jets at Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base, builders are constructing a junior high school that will be entirely underground...
...have information that the castle may really be a prison," Vellucci stated. He pointed to the moat which will surround the seven-story, window-scarce monolith, as evidence of secret designs by the Education School. "They may have crocodiles swimming around in there," Vellucci declared...
Santa Cruz could easily have been another monolith like Berkeley or U.C.L.A; it is one of three new branches of the California empire, each of them to be bigger than for example, private Stanford. What clinched the new plan was the stunning 2,000 acres of redwood forests and limestone quarries overlooking Monterey Bay, loo miles south of San Francisco Ihe university bought the land, settled loo years ago by Rancher Henry Cowell lor a rock-bottom $1,000 an acre...