Word: monolithism
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However, Moscow and Peking appeared to see eye to eye on the need for increased military aid to North Viet Nam and probably North Korea as well. In any case, it seemed certain that the deep rents in the Communist monolith were not being welded shut in the passionate heat of the moment. As one analyst put it: "When the smoke and the smiles have faded, I think we will find the Chinese and the Soviets right where they were before-at each other's political throats...
...could return from that other world whose existence, as a good Marxist atheist, he of course denied, Lenin would be dismayed by the quarrel but hardly surprised. Contrary to its reputation, Communism has never been a "monolith." Communists live in a violent hate-love relationship, and have always reacted to one another's heresies far more viciously than to any "class enemy...
...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...