Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kaltenborn had more firm opinions on more topics than any other commentator, and he delivered them with complete self-assurance. He was often profoundly right, especially in his early diagnosis of the dangers of Nazism. He could also be spectacularly wrong. In the close 1948 presidential election, which tried the...
There was quite persuasive evidence-certainly persuasive to me-that the breakdown in authority which had led many on both sides to take cover had produced a situation in which there was a serious danger that the people who would take hold of power were the people who had stood...
After the World War I defeat and the Versailles Treaty, which sought to impose "war guilt" on the vanquished, Germany developed, in the words of one historian, "an overwhelming sense of communal shame"-not for causing the war, but for the old Spartan sin of losing it. Delayed nationhood, humiliation...
A few Germans have been saying for some time that Bonn ought to ignore its allies, who have not been able to do anything about reunification, and negotiate with Russia directly. The overwhelming West German sentiment is still that the country must stay with the U.S. and in the Western...
Shortly before the Alianza para el Progreso was proclaimed in 1961, Thomas C. Mann, the U.S. State Department's ranking expert on Latin America, glumly compared the area to "a pile of sugar being eaten away by a fire hose." Much of the erosion has since been halted. The...